atlas
noun
a bound collection of maps.
Atlases
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pluralof Atlas.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
atlases
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pluralof atlas.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
atlasnouna bound collection of maps.
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"Rather attractive... with Atlases supporting enormous mock columns and a rather luxurious intimacy about the atmosphere".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2022
Only one of its Atlases, or telamones, remains even semi-intact.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020
Could Lou or one of the other Atlases take his title?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2015
The first generations of U.S. missile sites - the Atlases and Titans - once decommissioned were often left uncovered and sold for civilian use, some stripped for scrap metal, some converted into subterranean homes.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2015
Such men are the Atlases on whose mighty shoulders rest the great fabric of the Republic.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
MRI-based atlases capture the brain's broad structure but not individual cells.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
"With single-cell atlases, you take an entire organism and you literally split it into its individual cells. And then you look at gene expression in each cell separately," she said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
