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Atlas definition

At·las (atləs)

noun

  1. Gr. Myth. a Titan compelled to support the heavens on his shoulders
  2. any person who carries a great burden
    1. a book of maps: Atlas supporting the earth was often pictured on the front page of such books
    2. a book of tables, charts, illustrations, etc. on a specific subject or subjects an anatomical atlas
  3. Anat. the topmost vertebra of the neck
  4. Archit. atlantes

Etymology: L < Gr < prothetic a- + tlan, bearing < IE base *tel-, *tla-, to lift, bear > tolerate, thole

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atlas

n.

book of maps, gazetteer, charts, tables; see book 1.


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Atlas Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • illustrate: It provides over 48,000 images derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases.

Adjective modifier

  • anatomical: Several such anatomical atlases have been developed [ 19 ] , but these tend to be developed from as little as one subject brain.

Noun used with modifier

  • breeding: The two BTO breeding bird atlases indicated that a 29 % contraction in range occurred in Britain between the late 1960s and early 1990s.

Modifies a noun

  • mountain: We go to bed with the snowcapped Atlas mountains visible through our balcony window, all memories of London stress forgotten.

Noun used with modifier

  • softback: Esso appears to have abandoned sheet maps, but did issue a special value softback atlas in 2000.
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Atlas quotes

The discumbered Atlas of the state.

-Cowper,William

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

-Murphy, Dervla

Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks a-crow.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

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