atlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætləs/
ipa: /ˈætlɪs/
enpr: ătʹləs
ipa: /ˈætləs/
rhymes: -ætləs
homophone: Atlas
Forms: form: atlases
form: atlantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).
Senses: coordinate_terms: gazetteer#Etymology_2
glosses: A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
coordinate_terms: gazetteer#Etymology_2
glosses: A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
examples: text: An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
ref: 1904: Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs, main title (J. & A. Churchill)
text: In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.
ref: 1991, Alan C. F. Colchester, David J. Hawkes, editors, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Springer, →ISBN, page 154:
text: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the anatomical atlas', is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.
text: Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.
ref: 2003, Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Springer, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: in anatomy
of the human body
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
examples: text: There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, part II, page 58:
text: Ribs and spines show through the thin layer of meat left on the carcase, and, where the head meets the body, the crucial first vertebra – the atlas – is exposed.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 174:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: atlanto-
atlo-
glosses: The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
glosses: One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
topics: architecture
synonyms: atlantid
telamon
coordinate_terms: caryatid
glosses: A figure of a man used as a column.
qualifier: paper
glosses: A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
examples: text: a glyph atlas used in font rendering
text: a texture atlas
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
Derived terms: atlasing
proatlas