atlas
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/ˈætləs/
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- A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
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atlas,
kartasto
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- (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
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atlas,
kannattajanikama
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- A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
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asiakirja,
atlas,
kuvasto,
selvitys
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- (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.
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atlantti
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- (differential geometry, topology) A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
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atlas
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- One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
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tukipylväs
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Atlas
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/ˈætləs/
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- (Greek god) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
- (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
- (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
- (rocketry, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
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Atlas
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