Meaning of Atlas | Babel Free

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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
2. 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
3. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
4. A rich satin fabric.
   countable, historical, uncountable
5. 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
6. A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
   US
7. A subgroup of the Berber languages.
8. A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois. A township in Genesee County, Michigan. An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia. An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin. A moon of Saturn. A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri
9. A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
10. A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
11. A placename:
    countable, uncountable
12. A place in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
13. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.
    countable, uncountable
14. Ellipsis of Atlas Mountains
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
15. (or Telemon) A male statue used as a column, as in an ancient Greek temple.
16. A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois. A township in Genesee County, Michigan. An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia. An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin
17. 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
18. A township in Genesee County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
19. a book of maps. My atlas is out of date. atlas أطْلَس атлас atlas atlas der Atlas atlas γεωγραφικός άτ��ας atlas atlas اطلس karttakirja atlasאטלס मानचित्रावली atlas atlasz buku peta, atlas atlas, landakortabók atlante 地図帳 지도책 atlasas atlants buku peta atlas atlasatlas اطلس atlas atlas атлас atlas atlas atlas atlas หนังสือแผนที่ atlas 地圖集 атлас دنیا ککا نقشہ sách bản đồ 地图册
20. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois
21. A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
22. An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
    countable, uncountable
23. Greek Mythology A Titan condemned by Zeus to support the heavens upon his shoulders.
    Greek Mythology
24. A township in Genesee County, Michigan
25. The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
26. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
27. atlas A person who supports a great burden.
28. One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
29. An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
30. A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations and graphic analyses.
31. A figure of a man used as a column.
32. A moon of Saturn.
    countable, uncountable
33. A volume of tables, charts, or plates that systematically illustrates a particular subject: an anatomical atlas.
34. A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
35. A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
    countable, uncountable
36. A large size of drawing paper, measuring 26 × 33 or 26 × 34 inches.
37. An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
38. A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
    countable, uncountable
39. pl. at·lan·tes (ăt-lăn′tēz) Architecture A standing or kneeling figure of a man used as a supporting column, as for an entablature or balcony. Also called telamon.
40. A surname.
    countable
41. Anatomy The top or first cervical vertebra of the neck, which supports the skull.
    Anatomy
42. An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
    US, countable, uncountable
43. (Journalism & Publishing) a collection of maps, usually in book form

Equivalents

Examples

“An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs”

“In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.”

“1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the anatomical atlas', is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.”

“Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.”

“There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]”

“Ribs and spines show through the thin layer of meat left on the carcase, and, where the head meets the body, the crucial first vertebra – the atlas – is exposed.”

“a glyph atlas used in font rendering”

“a texture atlas”

“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; […]”

“Surat was an important port on the west coast of India from where atlases were exported on a large scale […]”

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