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Definition of Atlases

Atlases
Atlas At"las, n.; pl. Atlases. [L. Atlas, -antis, Gr. ?, ?, one of the older family of gods, who bears up the pillars of heaven; also Mt. Atlas, in W. Africa, regarded as the pillar of heaven. It is from the root of ? to bear. See Tolerate.] 1. One who sustains a great burden. 2. (Anat.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name. 3. A collection of maps in a volume; Note: supposed to be so called from a picture of Atlas supporting the world, prefixed to some collections. This name is said to have been first used by Mercator, the celebrated geographer, in the 16th century. 4. A volume of plates illustrating any subject. 5. A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas. 6. A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio. 7. A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. Atlas powder, a nitroglycerin blasting compound of pasty consistency and great explosive power.

Meaning of Atlases from wikipedia

- but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographical features and political boundaries, many atlases often feature...
- which Maps & Atlases officially released no original recorded material. On April 13, 2015, Elders announced his departure from Maps & Atlases via his Facebook...
- intellectual class as being "modern Atlases" who hold the modern world up at great expense to themselves.[citation needed] Atlas supports the terrestrial globe...
- The Atlas languages are a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. By mutual...
- Using Texture Atlases" (PDF). Nvidia. Retrieved 16 October 2018. "Implementing image sprites in CSS". Mozilla Development Network. Texture Atlas Whitepaper...
- The Anti-Atlas, also known as Lesser Atlas or Little Atlas, is a mountain range in Morocco, a part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa. The...
- Bird atlas Star atlas Atlases at DavidRumsey.com includes many important atlases from the 18th-20th centuries Charting North America, maps and atlases in...
- recorders and collated by the BRC Recording Schemes. The atlases fall into two groups: Main Atlases are commercially published books, presenting the current...
- The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean;...
- Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s. The Atlas II was a...