atlas
nounEtymology
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).
Definitions
A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its…
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.
- An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
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A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
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[…]
- 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.
One who supports a heavy burden
One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
A figure of a man used as a column.
A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the…
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
- a texture atlas
A rich satin fabric.
- 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 […]
The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to…
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.
A placename
A placename:
A surname.
An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
A subgroup of the Berber languages.
Ellipsis of Atlas Mountains
Alternative form of ATLAS
Initialism of Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (a robotic astronomical…
Initialism of Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects)
A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named…
A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
The neighborhood
- neighboratlantic
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at atlas. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at atlas. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at atlas
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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