atlas

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from the name of the mythological figure , from. 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).

Noun

 * 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)  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.
 * 4) * 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
 * 1) * 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865
 * 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”.
 * 1)  A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
 * 2)   The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
 * 3) One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
 * 4)  A figure of a man used as a column.
 * 5)  A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
 * 1)   The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
 * 2) One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
 * 3)  A figure of a man used as a column.
 * 4)  A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
 * 1) One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
 * 2)  A figure of a man used as a column.
 * 3)  A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
 * 1)  A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
 * 1)  A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: atlas
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَطْلَس
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: а́тлас
 * Bulgarian: а́тлас
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 地圖冊
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: atlaso, maparo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: atlas
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ატლასი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मानचित्रावली, एटलस,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kortabók,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: atlas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: atlas
 * Kazakh: атлас
 * Khmer: សៀវភៅផែនទី
 * Korean: 지도책(地圖冊)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئەفسووس
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: atlasas
 * Macedonian: атлас
 * Malay: atlas
 * Maori: pukapuka mapi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: atlas
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: atlas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: атлас
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: atlas
 * Slovene: atlas
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: атлас
 * Thai: แผนที่เล่ม
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: tập bản đồ


 * Bulgarian: а́тлас
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 圖解集
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 図録
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Albanian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian: атла́нт
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 第一頸椎
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: koljusammas,
 * Finnish: kannattajanikama,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: atlas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 環椎, 第一頚椎
 * Korean: 환추, 제1목뼈
 * Latvian:, pirmais kakla skriemelis
 * Malay: atlas
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: атла́нт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 身負重擔的人
 * Finnish: tukipylväs
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Russian: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 男像柱
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:, , telamon
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1)  A rich satin fabric.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَطْلَس
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Tajik: атлас
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek:

Etymology 1
From, from the name of the mythological figure , from.

Noun

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

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) the Atlas moth

Noun

 * 1)  bound collection of maps

Etymology
Apparently coined in Latin in this sense by from the name of the mythological giant. Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  bound or digital collection of maps
 * 2)   top vertebra
 * 1)   top vertebra

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) atlas collection of maps
 * 2)  atlas vertebra

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (collection of maps)

Etymology 1
From, from , from the name of the mythological figure , from.

Noun

 * 1) a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
 * 2)  the uppermost vertebra of the neck.
 * 1)  the uppermost vertebra of the neck.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) a rich satin fabric.

Etymology
From.

Noun

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

Etymology
From, a Titan in Greek mythology; first used in this sense by the cartographer Mercator.

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (collection of maps)
 * 2)  (topmost vertebra)
 * 1)  (topmost vertebra)

Etymology
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Etymology
From, a titan in Greek mythology.

Noun

 * 1)   a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text
 * 2)   the uppermost vertebra of the neck