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Definition of Atlas
Atlas
One who sustains a great burden.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

A collection of maps in a volume

A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Clarence Thomas



Atlas Translations
Atlas in Afrikaans is Atlas
atlas in Danish is atlas
atlas in Dutch is atlas, kaartenboek
Atlas in Dutch is Atlas
atlas in German is Atlas {m}, Atlant {m}
atlas in Spanish is atlas
atlas in Swedish is atlas (karta)


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