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How to pronounce atlas in English?

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Synonyms atlas vertebra
Type of neck bone, cervical vertebra
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Synonyms telamon
Type of pillar, column
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Synonyms book of maps, map collection
Type of reference, book of facts, reference book, reference work
Has types linguistic atlas, dialect atlas
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Examples of atlas

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Out of the dozens of potential contestants, I was the one not carrying an atlas.
From the suntimes.com
The atlas calculates the area of the world's coral as 284,000 square kilometres.
From the economist.com
Atlas Energy's subsidiary serves as managing general partner of the partnership.
From the foxbusiness.com
If you get stumped, look for answers in an almanac, an atlas or on the Internet.
From the orlandosentinel.com
At any given time we may also have 10 students and 10 postdocs working on ATLAS.
From the sciencedaily.com
Tidal flow timings and velocities appear in tide charts or a tidal stream atlas.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Johann Bayer's Uranometriastar atlas was published in 1603 with over 1200 stars.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Atlas, perhaps, is Richter's greatest work, because it contains all the others.
From the guardian.co.uk
I pulled out my National Geographic atlas and Steve went on Google to look it up.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
  • A collection of maps in book form
  • The 1st cervical vertebra
  • A figure of a man used as a supporting column
  • ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the six particle detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, and LHCf) constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. ...
  • An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets (and their satellites) in the solar system. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. ...
  • The Atlas was a mini-car made in France in 1951. Originally known as La Coccinelle, it used a single-cylinder engine of a mere 175 cc capacity. The fiberglass body seated two, the maximum speed said to be over .
  • Atlas is an album by the Mexican electro-pop band Kinky. It was released on December 2, 2003 on Nettwerk.
  • In the classical European architectural tradition an atlas (also known as a atlant, or atlantid; plural atlantes), Michael Delahunt, , 1996-2008. is a support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster. ...