noun 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.noun A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc.noun A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.noun A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun see Atlas powder in the vocabulary a blasting compound containing nitroglycerin.noun A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps - called also atlas folio.noun A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement.
noun A volume of plates illustrating any subject. noun (Anat.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name. noun A kind of satin: a word formerly used in the Levant and in India.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun In entomology, a large lamellicorn beetle of the family Scarabæidæ the atlas beetle, Chalcosoma atlas, about 3 inches long, and of a brilliant metallic-green color. noun A size of writing- or drawing-paper, 26 by 33 or 34 inches. noun Hence A volume of plates or tables illustrative or explanatory of some subject. noun In anatomy, the first cervical vertebra, by which the skull articulates with the spinal column: so called because it supports the head, as Atlas was fabled to uphold the sky. noun A male human figure serving as a column or pilaster. noun One who supports a heavy burden a mainstay a ‘pillar.’. noun Anatomy The top or first cervical vertebra of the neck, which supports the skull. noun Architecture A standing or kneeling figure of a man used as a supporting column, as for an entablature or balcony. 
noun A large size of drawing paper, measuring 26 × 33 or 26 × 34 inches.noun A volume of tables, charts, or plates that systematically illustrates a particular subject.noun A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations and graphic analyses.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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