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.

the first vertebra of the neck/cervical regions of the spine.

This multi-purpose experiment is currently under construction for use as a detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva Switzerland. For more information, see: http://press.web.cern.ch/Atlas/Welcome.html.

One of two huge particle detectors being built for use in experiments at the LHC.

A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS experiment at the LHC at CERN ( http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/Welcome.html)

Atlas aims to provide high quality maps of the world for use in FlightGear, an open source flight simulator.

A collection of maps in a volume

A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

a coherent collection of Pages

a systematic and coherent collection of geographical data in analogue or digital form, representing a particular area and/or one or more geographical themes, together with tools for information retrieval, analysis and presentation

A code which identifies those index records that are part of the ATLA Serials product, an online full-text collection of major religion and theology journals. Used as a valid value in the ATLAReligion product code index. See also ANDOVER; ESSCOL; IBRR; MRI; RDB; RIP.

The Atlas is a venerable line of space launch vehicles originally built by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, and now Lockheed Martin. Originally designed as an ICBM in the late 1950s, the Atlas is today used as a launch platform for commercial and military satellites, and other space vehicles.

Army Tactical Level Advanced Simulation (ATLAS), an interactive, distributed, constructive simulation used to conduct military Command Post Exercises (CPX) within the Royal Thai Army (RTA).

The ATLAS project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. It provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.

Authentic Teaching, Learning and Assessment for All Students, one of the national education-reform efforts sponsored by the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC). One key feature of ATLAS schools is that a high school and the schools that feed into it form an academic community that works together to set standards and policies. Other features include more student-initiated activities, more projects, more hands-on lessons and the use of presentations and portfolios as a way of judging what students have learned.

a type of area search, but it does not require the standardization of effort or replication that are important in area searches and other types of monitoring

Atlas is a triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45). It is also known as 27 Tauri.

Artificial Tele-empathic Logistics Analysis System, or ATLAS, is an artificial intelligence in the fictional Star Craft universe.

Atlas is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the southeast of Mare Frigoris. Just to the west is the slightly smaller but still prominent Hercules crater. Northeast of Atlas is the large Endymion crater.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

Satin weave used in India and the Near and Middle East.

Bexco (Belgium) trade name for a rope comprised of two forms of nylon. Half the outer yarns on a strand are conventional fine multifilament nylon fiber. The other outer yarns are large monofilament fibers.

A warp knit fabric in which a set of yarns shifts diagonally one wale per course for several courses , then returns to the original position.

a valuable reference book

Atlas is the name of a comic book series by cartoonist Dylan Horrocks. It is published by Drawn & Quarterly.

Atlas is an album by the Mexican electro-pop band Kinky. It was released on December 2, 2003 on Nettwerk.

Advanced Transaction Lookup and Signaling system. ATLAS is VeriSign's next generation infrastructure platform built to be a protocol agnostic, highly scalable, highly reliable, and secure directory infrastructure for a broad range of identity or transaction data lookups.

The Arizona Tracking Location Automation System is a statewide computer system for child support enforcement.

Automated Telephone Listing Address System. Central repository for Verizon Listings data. Input data is from Verizon Retail, Wholesale, and Independent service providers. ATLAS users include Verizon Directory Assistance and Directory Publishing.

Name of one of the first U.S. 2-stage rockets developed primarily as an atomic weapon delivery system. Utilized later as a satellite booster rocket. A real kludge.

biography card catalog (OPAC) dictionary

Aerospace Traffic Location and Sensing

UNIX International's GUI.

Architecture and Tools for Linguistic Analysis Systems

A computer which is often used as benchmark for computer performance.

ATTEMPT: may be used with but is not restricted to crime stories.

Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science

21-30 to Strength

an important key to understanding the world as we know it

An ad server used by advertisers and agencies to create and track ads.

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

864 x 660