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- 1 The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis. Greek, countable, uncountable
- 2 A subgroup of the Berber languages.
- 3 Alternative form of ATLAS alt-of, alternative
- 4 Initialism of Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects) abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 A placename:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Ellipsis of Atlas Mountains abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 7 A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
- 8 A placename:; A place in the United States:; A township in Genesee County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
- 9 A placename:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas. countable, uncountable
- 10 A placename:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
- 11 A placename:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin. countable, uncountable
- 12 A placename:; A moon of Saturn. countable, uncountable
- 13 A placename:; A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. countable, uncountable
- 14 A placename:; A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri. countable, uncountable
- 15 A surname. countable
- 16 An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series. US, countable, uncountable
- 1 A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
- 2 A rich satin fabric. countable, historical, uncountable
"I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]"
- 3 A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line. US
- 4 a figure of a man used as a supporting column wordnet
- 5 A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
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- 6 the 1st cervical vertebra wordnet
- 7 A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole. especially
"An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs"
- 8 a collection of maps in book form wordnet
- 9 A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
- 10 The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
"There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]"
- 11 One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
- 12 A figure of a man used as a column.
- 13 A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
- 14 An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
"a glyph atlas used in font rendering"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).
From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas, “satin”).
From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.
From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.
From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas). From the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone. The Berber languages exist in the region of the Atlas Mountains.
Alteration of ATLAS
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