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ATLAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A figure of a man used as a supporting column
Synonyms:
atlas; telamon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("atlas" is a kind of...):
column; pillar ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The 1st cervical vertebra
Synonyms:
atlas; atlas vertebra
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("atlas" is a kind of...):
cervical vertebra; neck bone (one of 7 vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A collection of maps in book form
Synonyms:
atlas; book of maps; map collection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("atlas" is a kind of...):
book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)
Meronyms (parts of "atlas"):
gazetteer (a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atlas"):
dialect atlas; linguistic atlas (an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Titan ((Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth))
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
Context examples:
One was an atlas, which I found opened naturally at England, as if that map had been much used.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In addition to the photos, the atlas will include written descriptions of affected people and will be searchable by phenotype (a person’s traits), syndrome, continental region of residence and genomic/molecular diagnosis.
(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)
The NCI's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94, shows the geographic patterns of cancer death rates in over 3,000 counties across the country over more than four decades.
(Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, NCI Thesaurus)
Scientists released the first comprehensive 3-D atlas of gene expression in the developing human brain.
(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)
She carried a little book in her pocket, not much larger than a Sanson’s Atlas; it was a common treatise for the use of young girls, giving a short account of their religion: out of this she taught me my letters, and interpreted the words.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An Atlas V rocket traced a blazing arc into the Florida sky Thursday evening to send a small robotic explorer on its way to an asteroid on a mission that scientists anticipate will reveal answers to some of the basic questions about the solar system.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
Little Raphael, as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Launched in 2012 aboard an Atlas V rocket, CSSWE involved more than 65 students and was operated for more than two years from a ground station on the roof of a building on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)
The surfaces of the moons Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora, farther out from Saturn, have ring material as well - but they're also coated with the bright icy particles and water vapor from the plume spraying out of Enceladus. (A broad outer ring of Saturn, known as the E ring, is formed by the icy material that fans out from Enceladus' plume.)
(NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons, NASA)
According to the Atlas of the Atlantic Forest Remains, which monitors the spatial distribution of the forest, the state of Paraná, one of the country's largest grain producers, reached the largest areas of regeneration in the period assessed, totaling 75,612 hectares; followed by Minas Gerais (59,850 hectares), Santa Catarina (24,964 hectares), São Paulo (23,021 hectares) and Mato Grosso do Sul (19,117 hectares).
(Brazil: Atlantic Forest regeneration in nine states, Agência Brasil)
