atlas

/ˈætləs/

name 10noun 7

Collocations

ADJ.

anatomical, beautiful, excellent, loftiest, mountainous, open, small

My grandfather kept an excellent atlas on the shelf in his study for decades.

VERB + ATLAS

flows, pack, sings, top

The river flows across the atlas like a blue vein stretching from coast to coast.

ATLAS + NOUN

collection, day, earth, home, japan, mountains, oceans, powders

I pulled out an old atlas collection from the dusty library shelf to find the mountain range.

PREP.

from, in, in, into, on

I looked up the location of Thailand in my atlas before planning the trip.

ADV.

often

I often consult my atlas when planning road trips across unfamiliar regions.

Definitions

noun

A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.

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.

An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs

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.

A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.

The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.

There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]

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.

noun

A rich satin fabric.

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; […]

Surat was an important port on the west coast of India from where atlases were exported on a large scale […]

name

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.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a figure of a man used as a supporting column

telamon

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs

Wiktionary

1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by t

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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; […]

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Surat was an important port on the west coast of India from where atlases were exported on a large scale […]

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I paid 2,000 yen for this atlas.

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Usage Notes

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