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At⋅las

  [at-luhs]
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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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Cultural Dictionary

atlas

A bound collection of maps. Atlases are named after the Greek god Atlas.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

atlas 
"collection of maps in a volume," 1636, first in ref. to the Eng. translation of "Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi" (1585) by Flemish geographer Gerhardus Mercator (1512-94), who may have been the first to use this word in this way. A picture of the Titan Atlas holding up the world (see Atlas) appeared on the frontispiece.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: at·las
Pronunciation: 'at-l&s
Function: noun
: the first vertebra of the neck
Atlas, Greek mythological character. In Greeklegend Atlas was a Titan who took part in the revolt against the gods. As a punishment he was condemned to hold the heavens aloft forever. Atlas was usually represented as a human figure bearing theheavens or the celestial globe upon his shoulders.
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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