Atlas

Atlas - Other Definitions

• (n.) One who sustains a great burden.
  
  
• (n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
  
  
• (n.) A collection of maps in a volume
  
  
• (n.) A volume of plates illustrating any subject.
  
  
• (n.) A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
  
  
• (n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.
  
  
• (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
  
  
• (n.) A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.