(Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
A proper noun "atlas" represents a moon of saturn, a crater in the last quadrant of the moon, and a triple star system in the pleiades open cluster.
(astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
A subgroup of the Berber languages.
(astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
(chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) 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.
(differential geometry, topology) A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
(anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
(architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.
(paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
(historical) A rich satin fabric.