atlas

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ătʹləs, IPA^(key): /ˈætləs/

From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”).

atlas (plural atlases or atlantes)

1. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
2. A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
3. (chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) 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.
   • 1904: Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs, main title (J. & A. Churchill)

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

   • 1991: Alan C. F. Colchester and David J. Hawkes [eds.], Information Processing in Medical Imaging, page 154 (Springer; →ISBN

     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”.

   • 2003: Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, page 19 (Springer; →ISBN

     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.

4. (topology) A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.
5. (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 58:

     There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns...

6. One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
7. (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
8. (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.

Arabic أَطْلَس‎ (ʾaṭlas)

atlas (uncountable)

1. A rich satin fabric.

• AASLT, Aalst, Salta, salat, talas

• Hyphenation: at‧las

From English 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”).

atlas

1. an atlas; a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text

From English Atlas moth.

atlas

1. the Atlas moth (Attacus atlas)

atlas m

1. atlas (bound collection of maps)

Borrowed from Latin Atlas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑt.lɑs/

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• Hyphenation: at‧las

atlas m (plural atlassen)

1. atlas

   Synonym: kaartenboek

atlas

1. atlas (collection of maps)
2. (anatomy) atlas (vertebra)

• (collection of maps): kartasto
• (vertebra): kannattajanikama, atlasnikama

• lasta, salat, talas

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

atlas m (genitive singular atlais, nominative plural atlais)

1. atlas (bound collection of maps; uppermost vertebra of the neck)

• "atlas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “atlas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), a Titan in Greek mythology; first used in this sense by the cartographer Mercator.

atlas n (definite singular atlaset, indefinite plural atlas or atlaser, definite plural atlasa or atlasene)

1. an atlas (book of maps)

• “atlas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas)

atlas n (definite singular atlaset, indefinite plural atlas, definite plural atlasa)

1. an atlas (book of maps)

• “atlas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.las/

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atlas m inan

1. atlas (bound collection of maps)

• atlas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlas/
• Homophone: Atlas

atlas m (plural atlas)

1. atlas (collection of maps)
2. atlas (topmost vertebra)

• (collection of maps): mapoteca

• (topmost vertebra): vértebra, osso

• (collection of maps): mapa, carta

• (topmost vertebra): coluna, espinha, espinhaço, esqueleto

• (topmost vertebra): áxis

àtlas m (Cyrillic spelling а̀тлас)

1. atlas

From the name of the mythological Atlas, via Latin from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/, [ˈat̪las]

atlas m (plural atlas)

1. (anatomy, cartography) atlas

• Atlas (cartografía) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Atlas (hueso) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• “atlas” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.