Atlas (disambiguation)

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This page is about the word "atlas". See also the abbreviation "ATLAS" (written in all caps).

Template:Wiktionarypar2 An atlas is a collection of maps.

Atlas may also refer to:

In science

• Atlas (anatomy) is the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine
• Atlas beetle, insect
• Atlas cedar, tree
• Atlas (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Atlas (crater), on the Earth's moon
• Atlas (star), a star in the Pleiades star cluster
• Atlas Experiment The particle detector experiment.

In computers

• Atlas Computer, University of Manchester
• Titan (computer), also know as Atlas 2, University of Cambridge
• UNIVAC 1101, Atlas Computer, Engineering Research Associates
• UNIVAC 1103, Atlas II computer, Engineering Research Associates
• ATLAS, a programming language used for automated test equipment
• ATLAS.ti, a qualitative analysis software[1]
• ATLAS, Microsoft's implementation of Ajax for ASP.NET
• ATLAS - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software

In books and literature

• The Atlas, a book by the American author William Vollmann
• Atlas, a book of photography by the German artist Gerhard Richter
• Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand
• Atlas Games, publisher
• Atlas Comics (1950s) was, along with the 1940s' Timely Comics, one of the two precursors of Marvel Comics
• Atlas/Seaboard Comics, a short-lived comic book company created in 1974
• Atlas, a comic book series published by Drawn & Quarterly
• Atlas, a Marvel Comics character

In Transportation

• Atlas (rocket)
• Atlas Cheetah and Atlas Oryx, aircraft
• Atlas Van Lines

A last name of

• Charles Atlas, there are several people who go by this name
• Teddy Atlas, boxing trainer of Mike Tyson
• Natacha Atlas, a female musician
• Atlas is a fictional robot who is the rival of Astro Boy in the 1980 and 2003 animated series named after the latter
• Atlas is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, best known as a member of the Thunderbolts (comics)

Other

• Atlas (mythology), the Titan of Greek mythology
• Atlas mountains
• Atlas (architecture), the column
• Atlas (topology), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics
• CF Atlas, a Mexican football team
• Atlas Telecom, Romanian communications company
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation, an incubator for free market think tanks.

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