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Atlas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • atlas noun A book of maps, often with extra tables, charts, or explanatory text.

Senses

Atlas is used for these senses in English:

  • Atlas (Greek god) 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.
  • atlas (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.

atlas — full definition

  1. noun A book of maps, often with extra tables, charts, or explanatory text.
  2. noun A bound collection of tables, charts, or illustrations covering a particular subject.
  3. noun The topmost bone of the neck, which supports the skull and allows it to nod.

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