noun · rare

atlas

atlas · atlases · atlantes

атлас

атлас, атлант

Atlas, Atlant

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

ⓘⓘ

/ˈætləs/

» Do you have a road atlas?

Meaning

10 senses

A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
Atlas
а́тласátlas
а́тласátlas
a collection of maps in book form
A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
Atlas
а́тласátlas
(especially)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.
A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
Atlas
The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
Atlas
атла́нтatlánt
the 1st cervical vertebra
One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
Atlas
Атла́нтAtlánt, атла́нтatlánt
A figure of a man used as a column.
Atlant, Atlas
атла́нтatlánt
a figure of a man used as a supporting column
A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
a glyph atlas used in font rendering
a texture atlas
(countable, historical, uncountable)A rich satin fabric.
атла́сatlás

Examples

65 sentences

Do you have a road atlas?
CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
I threw away my old atlas.
ruЯ выбросил свой старый атлас.
CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
I just bought an atlas.
CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
He's going to buy an atlas.
CC BY · Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · B2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
Open your atlas of Japan to page 3.
ruОткройте атлас Японии на третьей странице.
deÖffnet euren Japan-Atlas auf Seite 3.
CC BY · Tatoeba · B2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem

Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

bound collection of maps:

Русский

By meaning 4

bound collection of maps:

(anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the neck:

one who supports a heavy burden; mainstay:

satin fabric — see also satin:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

bound collection of maps:

(architecture) a figure of a man used as a column; telamon:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Á

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).

From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas, “satin”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source