ATLAS

Atlas

In Greek mythology, Atlas was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere. He is also the titan of astronomy and navigation. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa . Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klyménē :

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atlas

Noun

  1. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
  2. A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
  3. 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.
  4. A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.
  5. The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
  6. One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
  7. A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
  8. A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
  9. A rich satin fabric.


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