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Word: atlas
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Noun:
- A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
- A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
- anatomy The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
- architecture A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
- in|_|anatomy|,|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.
- paper A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
- One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
- topology A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.
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Proper noun:
- Astronomy a crater in the first quadrant of the moon
- Astronomy a moon of Saturn
- Greek mythology : son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
- (''Warfare, U.S.'') Intercontinental ballistic missile
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