Atlas (disambiguation)

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An atlas is a collection of maps.

Atlas may also refer to:

Businesses

• Atlas (appliance company), a Belarusian company
• Atlas Consortium, a group of technology companies
• Atlas Copco, Swedish company founded in 1873
• Atlas Corporation, an investment company
• Atlas Elektronik, a German naval/marine electronics and systems business
• Atlas Group, a Pakistani business group
• Atlas Mara Limited, formerly Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited, a financial holding company that owns banks in Africa
• Atlas Network, formerly Atlas Economic Research Foundation
• Atlas Press (tool company)
• Atlas Solutions, a subsidiary of Facebook for digital online advertising, formerly owned by Microsoft
• Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company
• Atlas Van Lines, a moving company
• Atlas-Imperial, an American diesel engine manufacturer
• Dresser Atlas, a provider of oilfield and factory automation services
• STN Atlas, a German defence company
• Tele Atlas, a Dutch mapping company
• Western Atlas, an oilfield services company

Computing

• Atlas (computer), an early supercomputer, built in the 1960s
• Atlas (robot), a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics and DARPA
• ATLAS Transformation Language, programming language
• Atlas.ti, a qualitative analysis program
• Texture atlas or image sprite sheet
• Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems, a MILSPEC language for avionics equipment testing
• Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
• UNIVAC 1101, an early American computer, built in the 1950s
• ASP.NET AJAX (formerly "Atlas"), a set of ASP.NET extensions
• Atlas, a computer used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2006

Entertainment

Geography

• Atlas, California
• Atlas, Illinois
• Atlas, Texas
• Atlas, West Virginia
• Atlas, Wisconsin
• Atlas District, an area in Washington, D.C.
• Atlas Mountains, a set of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa
• Atlas Township, Michigan
• Atlas Peak AVA, a California wine region

Mythology

• Atlas (mythology), a deity who held up the celestial sphere
• Atlas of Mauretania, a legendary king of Mauretania
• Atlas, first legendary king of Atlantis

People

Physics

• ATLAS experiment, a particle detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
• Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System, a linear accelerator at the Argonne National Laboratory
• Atomic-terrace low-angle shadowing, a nanofabrication technique

Plants and animals

• A book about flora and/or fauna of a region, such as atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland
• Atlas bear
• Atlas beetle
• Atlas cedar
• Atlas pied flycatcher, a bird
• Atlas moth
• Atlas turtle

Space and astronomy

• Atlas (crater)
• Atlas (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Atlas (rocket family)
• Atlas (star)
• Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST)
• Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)

Transport

Other uses

• Atlas (anatomy), part of the spine
• Atlas (architecture)
• Atlas (statue), iconic statue by Lee Lawrie in Rockefeller Center
• ATLAS (simulation) (Army Tactical Level Advanced Simulation), a Thai military system
• Atlas (topology), a set of charts
• ATLAS of Finite Groups, a group theory book
• Atlas languages, Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
• ATLAS Network, a network of European special police units
• Atlas personality, a term used in psychology to describe the personality of someone whose childhood was characterized by excessive responsibilities
• Atlas Uranium Mill
• Atlas (storm), which hit the Midwestern United States in October 2013, named by The Weather Channel
• Agrupación de Trabajadores Latinoamericanos Sindicalistas
• Brain atlas, a neuroanatomical map of the brain of a human or other animal

See also

• All pages with a title containing atlas