atlas
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- A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
- A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
- (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
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Atlas
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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.
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