Atlas
Atlas stands for:
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Atlas (cartography) , a cartographic work in mostly bound form
- Wave atlas , for swell or monster waves
- Atlas (1961) , American film directed by Roger Corman
- Atlas (2018) , German film by David Nawrath
- Atlas (computer game) , computer game from 2018
- Atlas (mountain range) , a high mountain range in North Africa
- Atlas (song) , song of Coldplay (2013)
- Atlas (cervical vertebra) , the first cervical vertebra to support the head
- Atlas (mathematics) , a family of compatible maps of a manifold
- Atlas (Economy) , the World Bank's synthetic exchange rate used to calculate gross national income in US dollars
- Collection of picture plates or picture data, see reference book # Atlas
- heavy, high-gloss silk fabric, see satin
Atlas is the name of the following people:
- Atlas (mythology) , a titan from Greek mythology
- Atlas of Mauritania , King of Mauritania, namesake for the cartographic atlas
- Atlas (King) , the first king of the island kingdom of Atlantis
Atlas is the family name of the following people:
- Charles Atlas (1892–1972), Italian-American bodybuilder and inventor of a bodybuilding method
- Charles Atlas (artist) (* 1949), American video and performance artist
- David Atlas (1924-2015), American meteorologist
- Leopold Atlas (1907–1954), American playwright and screenwriter
- Mariam Atlas (1912–2006), Soviet-Russian economist and university professor
- Martin Atlas , Austro-Hungarian writer
- Natacha Atlas (* 1964), Belgian musician
- Teddy Atlas (* 1956), American boxing trainer and television commentator
- Tony Atlas (* 1954), American wrestler, bodybuilder and powerlifter
- Zeb Atlas (* 1970), American model and porn actor
Atlas are the following geographical or astronomical objects:
- Atlas (Glarus Alps) , a mountain peak in the canton of Graubünden
- Mount Atlas , Antarctica
Administrative units, places:
- Atlas Township - several townships
- Atlas, Idaho , in Kootenai County, United States
- Atlas, Illinois , in Pike County, United States
- Atlas, California , in Napa County, United States
- Atlas, Kansas , in Crawford County, United States
- Atlas, Michigan , in Genesee County, United States
- Atlas, Missouri , in Jasper County, United States
- Atlas, Pennsylvania , in Northumberland County, United States
- Atlas, Texas , in Lamar County, United States
- Atlas, West Virginia , in Upshur County, United States
- Atlas, Wisconsin , in Polk County, United States
such as:
- Atlas, Alabama , deserted town in Lauderdale County, United States
- Atlas Theater , building in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Atlas or ATLAS :
- astronomy
- Atlas (star) , a star in the Pleiades
- Atlas (moon) , one of the moons of the planet Saturn
- Atlas (moon crater)
- Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System
- C / 2019 Y4 (ATLAS) , a comet
- Companies, brands
- Atlas BKK , health insurance company
- Atlas Copco , Swedish industrial group
- Atlas Elektronik , a manufacturer of marine electronics
- Atlas GmbH , a German construction machinery manufacturer with headquarters in Ganderkesee
- Atlas-Verbund , a network of European special police forces
- ATLAS (customs software) , software of the German customs administration
- Atlas Network , Foundation for the Promotion of Liberal Politics
- Atlas Model Railroad Company Inc., a manufacturer of model railroad accessories
- ATLAS (Association) of Translators in France, A ssociation pour la promotion de la t raduction l ittéraire, A rle s
- Atlas Weyhausen , German construction machinery manufacturer with headquarters in Wildeshausen
- Automobiles
- AB Atlas , former Swedish automobile manufacturer
- Atlas Automobile Company , former US automobile manufacturer
- Atlas (car brand) , a former French car brand
- Atlas (Prunel) , a former French car brand owned by Prunel
- Atlas Motor Car Company , former US automobile manufacturer
- Atlas (Kly) , former British car manufacturer
- Geely Atlas , Geely 's SUV model
- Goliath Atlas , vehicle of the 1930s
- Gutbrod Atlas , vehicle from the 1950s
- Hansa-Lloyd Atlas, see Goliath Atlas
- Lyons-Atlas Company , former American automobile manufacturer
- Nissan Atlas , a Nissan truck model
- Volkswagen Atlas , vehicle of the 2010s
- air traffic
- ATLAS Consortium , a former consortium of European airlines
- Atlas (missile) , a series of U.S. intercontinental and launch vehicles
- Atlas V , a further development of the Atlas rocket
- Atlas CSH-2, a South African type of attack helicopter, see Denel AH-2
- Atlas C4M , a South African transport aircraft
- Airbus A400M , a European military transport aircraft (Royal Air Force: Atlas C.1)
- Atlas (Helicopter) , the first human powered helicopter, with the development team the Sikorsky Prize won
- a standard for aircraft kitchen equipment, see Galley
- shipping
- Technology, IT
- Atlas (robot) , a humanoid robot
- ATLAS (Computer) , a British computer (University of Manchester, Ferranti) that was shipped from 1962
- ATLAS (detector) , a detector at the LHC at CERN
- ATLAS-I , a NEMP test facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science , a research project in Spacelab (ATLAS)
- Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software , an open source program library for linear algebra
- Media, music, sports
- Atlas Verlag , a Swiss publisher based in Lausanne
- Atlas Verlag (Munich) , a German magazine publisher based in Munich
- Atlas Film + Medien , a film distributor in Duisburg
- Atlas, compiled by German authors , an all-German anthology published by Wagenbach Verlag in 1965
- Album by the Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive , 2012
- Atlas Guadalajara , a football club
See also:
- Atlas company
- Atlant (component)
Wiktionary: Atlas - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations