Atlas (disambiguation)

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An atlas is a collection of maps.

Atlas may also refer to:

Mythology

• Atlas (mythology), a deity who held up the celestial sphere
• Atlas of Mauretania, a king skilled in astronomy
• Atlas, a son of Poseidon

Businesses

• Atlas (appliance company), a Belarusian company
• Atlas Consortium, a group of technology companies
• Atlas Copco, Swedish company founded in 1873
• Atlas Corporation, an investment company
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation
• Atlas Elektronik, a German naval/marine electronics and systems business
• Atlas Group, a Pakistani business group
• Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited, a financial holding company that owns banks in Africa
• Atlas Press (tool company)
• Atlas Solutions, a subsidiary of Facebook for digital online advertising, formerly owned by Microsoft
• Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company
• Atlas Van Lines, a moving company
• Atlas-Imperial, an American diesel engine manufacturer
• Dresser Atlas, a provider of oilfield and factory automation services
• STN Atlas, a German defence company
• Tele Atlas, a Dutch mapping company
• Western Atlas, an oilfield services company

Computing

• Atlas (computer), an early supercomputer, built in the 1960s
• Atlas (robot), a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics and DARPA
• ATLAS Transformation Language, programming language
• Atlas.ti, a qualitative analysis program
• Texture atlas
• Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems, a MILSPEC language for avionics equipment testing
• Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
• UNIVAC 1101, an early American computer, built in the 1950s
• ASP.NET AJAX (formerly "Atlas"), a set of ASP.NET extensions
• Atlas, a computer used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2006

Entertainment

Music

• Atlas (band), a New Zealand rock band
• Atlas (Real Estate album)
• Atlas (Kinky album)
• Atlas (Parkway Drive album)
  • "Atlas", a song from the album
• Atlas (RÜFÜS album)
• "Atlas" (Battles song), 2007 song by Battles on the album Mirrored
• "Atlas" (Coldplay song), 2013 song by Coldplay from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack
• Atlas (opera), 1991 opera by Meredith Monk
  • Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts, 1993 recording of Monk's opera
• "Atlas", a song by Man Overboard from Man Overboard

Video games

• The Atlas (video game)
• Atlas Games, a game publisher
• Atlas Terrain Engine, part of a game engine
• Task Force Atlas, a Polish GROM task force in the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Literature and publishing

• Atlas (DC Comics)
• Atlas (Drawn and Quarterly), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
• Atlas (magazine)
• The Atlas, a newspaper published in England from 1826 to 1869
• The Atlas (novel), by William T. Vollmann
• Atlas Comics (1950s), a publisher
• Atlas/Seaboard Comics, a 1970s line of comics
• Atlas Press, a UK publisher
• Agents of Atlas, a Marvel Comics mini-series
• Atlas, a photography book by Gerhard Richter
• Atlas folio, a book size
• Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

Fictional characters

• Erik Josten, a.k.a. Atlas, a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Atlas, an Astro Boy character
• Atlas, a BioShock character
• Atlas, a Portal 2 character
• Atlas, a PS238 character
• Atlas (Teen Titans), Teen Titans character
• Atlas, an antagonist in Mega Man ZX Advent

Sport

• Club Atlas, a Mexican professional football club
• Club Atlético Atlas, an Argentine amateur football club
• Atlas Delmenhorst, a German association football club
• Tony Atlas, wrestler
• Charles Atlas, wrestler

Other entertainment

• Atlas (film)
• Atlas Media Corp., a non-fiction entertainment company
• RTV Atlas, a broadcaster in Montenegro
• Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator, a hydraulic motion simulator used in theme parks
• Atlas, a BattleMech in the BattleTech universe
• Atlas Entertainment, a film production company

Geography

• Atlas, California
• Atlas, Illinois
• Atlas, Texas
• Atlas, West Virginia
• Atlas, Wisconsin
• Atlas District, an area in Washington, D.C.
• Atlas Mountains, a set of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa
• Atlas Township, Michigan
• Atlas Peak AVA, a California wine region

Space and astronomy

• Atlas (crater)
• Atlas (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Atlas (rocket family)
• Atlas (star)
• Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST)
• Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)

Physics

• ATLAS experiment, a particle detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
• Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System, a linear accelerator at the Argonne National Laboratory
• Atomic-terrace low-angle shadowing, a nanofabrication technique

Plants and animals

• A book about flora and/or fauna of a region, such as atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland
• Atlas bear
• Atlas beetle
• Atlas cedar
• Atlas pied flycatcher, a bird
• Atlas moth
• Atlas turtle

Transport

Aviation

• Atlas Air, an American cargo airline
• Atlas Aircraft, a 1940s aircraft manufacturer
• Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a South African military aircraft manufacturer
• Atlas Aviation, an aircraft maintenance firm
• Atlas Blue, a Moroccan low-cost airline
• Airbus A400M Atlas, a military aircraft produced 2007–present
• Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, a British military aeroplane produced 1927–1933
• Birdman Atlas, an ultralight aircraft
• La Mouette Atlas, a French hang glider design
• Atlasjet, a Turkish airline
• HMLAT-303, U.S. Marine Corps helicopter training squadron
• AeroVelo Atlas, a human-powered helicopter

Trains

• Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company, a locomotive manufacturer
• Atlas Model Railroad
• Atlas, an 1863–1885 South Devon Railway Dido class locomotive
• Atlas, a 1927–1962 LMS Royal Scot Class locomotive

Ships and boats

• USS Atlas, the name of several U.S. Navy ships
• HMS Atlas, the name of several Royal Navy ships
• ST Atlas, a Swedish tugboat
• Atlas Werke, a German shipbuilder

Automotive

• Atlas (1951 automobile), a French mini-car
• Atlas (light trucks), a Greek motor vehicle manufacturer
• Atlas (Pittsburgh automobile), produced 1906–1907
• Atlas (Springfield automobile), produced 1907–1913
• Atlas Motor Buggy, an American highwheeler produced in 1909
• GM Atlas engine
• Nissan Atlas, a Japanese light truck
• Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan, a Pakistani car manufacturer
• Volkswagen Atlas, a sport utility vehicle
• Atlas, a British van by the Standard Motor Company produced 1958–1962
• Atlas Drop Forge Company, a parts subsidiary of REO Motor Car Company

People

• Atlas DaBone, American wrestler and football player
• Charles Atlas (1892–1972), Italian-American bodybuilder
• David Atlas (born 1924), American meteorologist who pioneered weather radar
• James Atlas (born 1949), American writer, editor and publisher
• Meir Atlas (1848–1926), Lithuanian rabbi
• Natacha Atlas (born 1964), Belgian singer
• Teddy Atlas (born 1956), American boxing trainer and commentator
• Tony Atlas (born 1954), American wrestler and bodybuilder

Other uses

• Atlas (anatomy), part of the spine
• Atlas (architecture)
• Atlas (statue), iconic statue by Lee Lawrie in Rockefeller Center
• ATLAS (simulation) (Army Tactical Level Advanced Simulation), a Thai military system
• Atlas (topology), a set of charts
• ATLAS of Finite Groups, a group theory book
• Atlas languages, Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
• ATLAS Network, a network of European special police units
• Atlas Uranium Mill
• Atlas (storm), which hit the Midwestern United States in October 2013, named by The Weather Channel
• Agrupación de Trabajadores Latinoamericanos Sindicalistas
• Brain atlas, a neuroanatomical map of the brain of a human or other animal

See also

• All pages with titles containing atlas