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Meaning of atlas

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

atlas

Pronunciation:/ˈætləs/

noun

Definitions

  1. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

  2. A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.

  3. (especially of the human body) 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.

  4. A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.