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- English Word Atlanta Definition A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
- English Word Atlantal Definition Relating to the atlas.
- English Word Atlantal Definition Anterior; cephalic.
- English Word Atlantean Definition Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.
- English Word Atlantean Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong.
- English Word Atlantes Definition Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
- English Word Atlantic Definition Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
- English Word Atlantic Definition Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.
- English Word Atlantic Definition Descended from Atlas.
- English Word Atlantides Definition The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.
- English Word Atlas Definition One who sustains a great burden.
- English Word Atlas Definition The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
- English Word Atlas Definition A collection of maps in a volume
- English Word Atlas Definition A volume of plates illustrating any subject.
- English Word Atlas Definition A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
- English Word Atlas Definition A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.
- English Word Atlas Definition A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
- English Word Atlas Definition A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.
- English Word Atlases Definition of Atlas
- English Word Atmidometer Definition An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow.