atlas
名词 n.
英 /ˈætləs/|/ˈætlɪs/
美 /ˈætləs/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
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A rich satin fabric.
— I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]
- A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
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A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.
— An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
- A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
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The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
— There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]
- One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
- A figure of a man used as a column.
- A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
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An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
— a glyph atlas used in font rendering
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).
词源 2
From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas, “satin”).
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