Atlas (rocket family) definition

Atlas (rocket family)

Topics Atlas (rocket family) Definition

WordNet

(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

From the Greek Mythological figure Atlas (see below), meaning "The Bearer (of the Heavens)", from tlenai, (to suffer, endure, bear).

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