Atlas (disambiguation)

Atlas, most commonly means a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form.

Atlas can mean:

Greek mythology

Atlas (Titan), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a great sphere on his back or shoulders
Atlas, the first king of Atlantis

Science

In astronomy:

Atlas (moon), a moon of Saturn
Atlas (crater), a prominent impact crater on the Moon
Atlas (star), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster

In biology:

A book about flora and/or fauna of an area or region; for example, Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland
Atlas (anatomy), the topmost cervical vertebra of the human spine
Atlas Beetle, a rhinoceros beetle (Dynastinae) in the genus Chalcosoma
Attacus atlas (or Atlas moth), a large saturniid moth
Atlas Cedar, a large cedar tree native to the Atlas mountains of Algeria and Morocco
Atlas Flycatcher, a bird in the an Old World Flycatcher family
Atlas Bear, a species of bear native to Africa, now extinct
Testudo atlas (or Atlas turtle), an extinct species of cryptodire turtle from the Pleistocene period

In physics:

ATLAS experiment, a particle detector for the LHC at CERN
Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System, a particle accelerator at the Argonne National Laboratory

In mathematics:

Atlas (topology), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

Literature and press

Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand
Atlas, a book of photography by German artist Gerhard Richter
The Atlas (novel), by American author William T. Vollmann
Atlas publishing house for collector series (mainly automobile, plane and train miniatures), active in Switzerland, France and Italy
Atlas (magazine), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture.

Computing

Atlas Computer (Manchester) (1962 - 1971), an early computer built at the University of Manchester
- Titan (computer) (also known as the Atlas 2), its successor
- Atlas Autocode, a programming language developed for the Atlas Computer
UNIVAC 1101, also known as the Atlas
- UNIVAC 1103, also known as the Atlas II
ATLAS Transformation Language, an OMG standard for performing model transformations
ASP.NET AJAX (formerly codenamed "Atlas"), a set of ASP.NET extensions providing Ajax functionality
Atlas Terrain Engine, developed by Garage Games for use in their Torque Shader Engine
Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software more commonly known as ATLAS, an optimized BLAS implementation
Atlas.ti, a qualitative analysis software
Texture atlas

Geography

Atlas Mountains, a mountain range in northwest Africa
Atlas (Neighborhood), in Northeast Washington, DC.
Atlas Township, Michigan, USA

Entertainment

Atlas Games (company), a publisher of role-playing and card games
ATLAS (StarCraft), a fictional artificial intelligence in the StarCraft universe
Atlas (album), an album by Mexican electropop band Kinky
Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator, a large hydraulic motion simulator for the theme park industry
Atlas (band), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand.
Atlas: Renaissance Voyager, the first in a series of videogames. (See also: Neo Atlas)
Atlas (Bioshock Character), A Dublin northsider who talks you through the game.

Comics

Atlas Comics (1950s), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics
Atlas (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics, best known as a member of the Thunderbolts
Atlas (comic series), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
Atlas/Seaboard Comics, a line of comics published by Seaboard Periodicals
Agents of Atlas, a Marvel Comics mini-series by Jeff Parker

Companies

Atlas Aircraft Corporation, South African military aircraft manufacturer
Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company
Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a naval/marine electronics and systems business based in Bremen, Germany
Atlas Van Lines, a moving van company
Atlas Air, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York
Atlas Blue, a low-cost airline based in Marrakech, Morocco
Atlas Copco, a Swedish rock drill manufacturer
- Polar Atlas historic Swedish diesel maker, later part of Atlas Copco
Atlas-Imperial, a historic American diesel engine builder
Atlas Model Railroad, maker of scale railroad models
Atlas Condoms
Atlas Venture, an international early-stage venture capital firm
Atlas (light trucks), a Greek vehicle manufacturer
Atlasjet, an airline of Turkey

Automobiles, trucks & related

Atlas, name of several automobile & truck companies
Gutbrod Atlas, a former German small commercial vehicle
Nissan Atlas, a Japanese light truck
GM Atlas engine, a family of modern inline piston engines for trucks from General Motors
Atlas (light trucks)
Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives

People

Meir Atlas (1848–1926), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva
Charles Atlas (1892–1972), a famous bodybuilder
Tony Atlas (born 1944), a professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and powerlifter
Teddy Atlas (born 1956), a well-known boxing trainer and fight commentator
Natacha Atlas (born 1964), a Belgian female singer
James Atlas, founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series
Atllas, a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona

Military

Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force
Atlas Oryx, a medium-sized utility helicopter manufactured by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa
Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems, a programming language used for automated test equipment
ATLAS (simulation), a system used to conduct military Command Post Exercises (CPX) within the Royal Thai Army
Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, an Army Air Cooperation aeroplane of the 1920s

Other

Atlas (missile), a venerable line of space launch vehicles
Atlas (architecture), a support or column sculpted in the form of a man
Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the titan Atlas
Atlas languages, a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Atlas Uranium Mill, a decommissioned uranium mill near Moab, Utah
CF Atlas, a Mexican professional football club
Radio Atlas, a radio station in Montenegro
Atlas Vampire, the nickname of the assailant of the unsolved "Vampire Murder" in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1932
Atlas Economic Research Foundation, an incubator for free market think tanks

Atlas (1863 - 1885), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
The Atlas (building), a tower in Midtown New York City
Atlas, a book size
Atlas, one of the main characters in the game BioShock.

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