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'No other atlas has been able to capture all of these aspects in such an informative, accurate and beautiful manner.

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  1. noun A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations and graphic analyses.
  2. noun A volume of tables, charts, or plates that systematically illustrates a particular subject: an anatomical atlas.
  3. noun A large size of drawing paper, measuring 26 × 33 or 26 × 34 inches.
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  • Mercator began an atlas which included many of his earlier maps; the atlas was completed by his son and published in 1594. —  infoplease - Daily Almanac
  • 'No other atlas has been able to capture all of these aspects in such an informative, accurate and beautiful manner. —  AME Info Latest News
  • For instance, the bones of the neck are complete and include the top joint of the backbone known as the atlas; whereas a person without anatomical knowledge would probably take off the head by cutting through the neck. —  The Eye of Osiris
  • So that it would seem that the atlas is a vertebra minus a centrum, and the axis is a vertebra plus a centrum, added at the expense of the atlas Section 79. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • The anterior is sometimes called the atlas, but it is evidently not the homologue of the atlas of the rabbit, since the first spinal nerve has a corresponding distribution to the twelfth cranial of the mammal, and since, therefore, it is probable that the mammalian skull = the frog's skull + one (or more) vertebrae incorporated with it. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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  1. After Atlas, probably from depictions of him holding the world on his shoulders that appeared on the frontispieces of early works of this kind.
  2. From Atlas.

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  1. = F. Spanish Portuguese atlas = Italian atlante = G. Danish Swedish atlas, atlas (def. 4), from Latin Atlas (Atlant-), from Greek )/Ατλας ()Ατλαντ-), in mythology a member of the older family of gods, who bore up the pillars of heaven; later, one of the Titans, condemned to bear up the heavens, or, in other forms of the legend, the earth: the name was also given to Mount Atlas (see Atlantic), to a statue serving as a column (def. 2), and to one of the cervical vertebræ (def. 3); apparently from ἀ- euphonic + √ *τλα (τλῆναι), endure, = L. √ *tla, in tlatus, latus, past participle (associated with ferre = English bear, hold up, carry), and in tollere, lift, tolerare, endure: see ablative and tolerate.
  2. = Spanish atlas = German atlass = Swedish atlas = Danish atlas, atlask, satin, from Hindustani atlas, from Arabic atlas, satin, from atlas, smooth, bare, blank, from talasa, make smooth, delete.
 

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