atlas

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/ˈætləs/

noun

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01
noun
A book or collection of maps.
02
noun
The first bone of the neck, supporting the head.

Examples

Atlas is often depicted carrying the Earth on his shoulders.
I paid 2,000 yen for this atlas.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

Also pronounced

/ˈæʈ.ləs/

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Extra meanings

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.
A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.

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Open your atlas of Japan to page 3.
a glyph atlas used in font rendering
An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs

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Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.
2003, Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Springer, →ISBN, page 19
There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]
1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, part II, page 58
Ribs and spines show through the thin layer of meat left on the carcase, and, where the head meets the body, the crucial first vertebra – the atlas – is exposed.
2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 174
In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.
1991, Alan C. F. Colchester, David J. Hawkes, editors, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Springer, →ISBN, page 154
I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]
1887, Sir William Hedges, Sir Henry Yule, The Diary of William Hedges, Esq.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). 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).

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The student used the huge blank to find the capital of Brazil.