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Atlas (light trucks)
WordNet
noun
(1) A figure of a man used as a supporting column
(2) The 1st cervical vertebra
(3) A collection of maps in book form
(4) (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From the Greek Mythological figure Atlas (see below), meaning "The Bearer (of the Heavens)", from tlenai, (to suffer, endure, bear).
Proper noun
Atlas
- : son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
- a moon of Saturn
- a crater in the first quadrant of the moon
- (Warfare, U.S.) Intercontinental ballistic missile