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noun, plural at·las·es for 1–3, at·lan·tes 
[at-lan-teez] for 5.
[at-lan-teez] for 5. 1.
a bound collection of maps.
2.
a bound volume of charts, plates, or tables illustrating any subject.
3.
Anatomy. the first cervical vertebra, which supports the head.
4.
a size of drawing or writing paper, 26 × 34 or 33 inches.
5.
Also called telamon. Architecture. a sculptural figure of a man used as a column.
Compare caryatid.
Origin:
1580–90 in sense “prop, support”; as name for a collection of maps, said to be from illustrations of Atlas supporting the globe in early books of this kind
1580–90 in sense “prop, support”; as name for a collection of maps, said to be from illustrations of Atlas supporting the globe in early books of this kind
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noun, plural At·las·es for 2, 4.
1.
Classical Mythology. a Titan, son of Iapetus and brother of Prometheus and Epimetheus, condemned to support the sky on his shoulders: identified by the ancients with the Atlas Mountains.
2.
a person who supports a heavy burden; a mainstay.
3.
Charles (Angelo Siciliano), 1894–1972, U.S. body-building advocate, born in Italy.
4.
a liquid-propellant booster rocket, originally developed as the first U.S. ICBM, used with Agena or Centaur upper stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets; also used to launch the Mercury spacecraft into orbit around the earth.
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Word Origin & History
atlas
"collection of maps in a volume," 1636, first in reference to the English translation of "Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi" (1585) by Flemish geographer Gerhardus Mercator (1512-1594), who might have been the first to use this word in this way. A picture of the Titan
EXPAND Atlas holding up the world appeared on the frontispiece of this and other early map collections.
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Medical Dictionary
atlas at·las (āt'ləs)
n.
The top or first cervical vertebra of the neck, supporting the skull and articulating with the occipital bone and rotating around the dens of the axis.
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Cultural Dictionary
atlas definition
A bound collection of maps. Atlases are named after the Greek god Atlas.
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