title: Atlas (disambiguation)
text: Atlas, most commonly means a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form.
  
  Atlas can mean:
  
  Greek mythology 
   Atlas (Titan), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a great sphere on his back or shoulders
   Atlas, the first king of Atlantis
  
  Science 
  In astronomy:
   Atlas (moon), a moon of Saturn
   Atlas (crater), a prominent impact crater on the Moon
   Atlas (star), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster
  In biology:
   A book about flora and/or fauna of an area or region; for example, Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland
   Atlas (anatomy), the topmost cervical vertebra of the human spine
   Atlas Beetle, a rhinoceros beetle (Dynastinae) in the genus Chalcosoma
   Attacus atlas (or Atlas moth), a large saturniid moth
   Atlas Cedar, a large cedar tree native to the Atlas mountains of Algeria and Morocco
   Atlas Flycatcher, a bird in the an Old World Flycatcher family
   Atlas Bear, a species of bear native to Africa, now extinct
   Testudo atlas (or Atlas turtle), an extinct species of cryptodire turtle from the Pleistocene period
  
  In physics:
   ATLAS experiment, a particle detector for the LHC at CERN
   Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System, a particle accelerator at the Argonne National Laboratory
  In mathematics:
   Atlas (topology), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics
  
  Literature and press 
   Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand
   Atlas, a book of photography by German artist Gerhard Richter
   The Atlas (novel), by American author William T. Vollmann
   Atlas publishing house for collector series (mainly automobile, plane and train miniatures), active in Switzerland, France and Italy
   Atlas (magazine), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture.
  
  Computing 
   Atlas Computer (Manchester) (1962 - 1971), an early computer built at the University of Manchester
   Titan (computer) (also known as the Atlas 2), its successor
   Atlas Autocode, a programming language developed for the Atlas Computer
   UNIVAC 1101, also known as the Atlas
   UNIVAC 1103, also known as the Atlas II
   ATLAS Transformation Language, an OMG standard for performing model transformations
   ASP.NET AJAX (formerly codenamed "Atlas"), a set of ASP.NET extensions providing Ajax functionality
   Atlas Terrain Engine, developed by Garage Games for use in their Torque Shader Engine
   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software more commonly known as ATLAS, an optimized BLAS implementation
   Atlas.ti, a qualitative analysis software
   Texture atlas
  
  Geography 
   Atlas Mountains, a mountain range in northwest Africa
   Atlas (Neighborhood), in Northeast Washington, DC.
   Atlas Township, Michigan, USA
  
  Entertainment 
   Atlas Games (company), a publisher of role-playing and card games
   ATLAS (StarCraft), a fictional artificial intelligence in the StarCraft universe
   Atlas (album), an album by Mexican electropop band Kinky
   Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator, a large hydraulic motion simulator for the theme park industry
   Atlas (band), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand.
   Atlas: Renaissance Voyager, the first in a series of videogames. (See also: Neo Atlas)
   Atlas (Bioshock Character), A Dublin northsider who talks you through the game.
  
  Comics 
   Atlas Comics (1950s), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics
   Atlas (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics, best known as a member of the Thunderbolts
   Atlas (comic series), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
   Atlas/Seaboard Comics, a line of comics published by Seaboard Periodicals
   Agents of Atlas, a Marvel Comics mini-series by Jeff Parker
  
  Companies 
   Atlas Aircraft Corporation, South African military aircraft manufacturer
   Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company
   Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a naval/marine electronics and systems business based in Bremen, Germany
   Atlas Van Lines, a moving van company
   Atlas Air, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York
   Atlas Blue, a low-cost airline based in Marrakech, Morocco
   Atlas Copco, a Swedish rock drill manufacturer
   Polar Atlas historic Swedish diesel maker, later part of Atlas Copco
   Atlas-Imperial, a historic American diesel engine builder
   Atlas Model Railroad, maker of scale railroad models
   Atlas Condoms
   Atlas Venture, an international early-stage venture capital firm
   Atlas (light trucks), a Greek vehicle manufacturer
   Atlasjet, an airline of Turkey
  
  Automobiles, trucks & related
   Atlas, name of several automobile & truck companies
   Gutbrod Atlas, a former German small commercial vehicle
   Nissan Atlas, a Japanese light truck
   GM Atlas engine, a family of modern inline piston engines for trucks from General Motors
   Atlas (light trucks)
   Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives
  
  People 
   Meir Atlas (1848–1926), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva
   Charles Atlas (1892–1972), a famous bodybuilder
   Tony Atlas (born 1944), a professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and powerlifter
   Teddy Atlas (born 1956), a well-known boxing trainer and fight commentator
   Natacha Atlas (born 1964), a Belgian female singer
   James Atlas, founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series
   Atllas, a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona
  
  Military 
   Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force
   Atlas Oryx, a medium-sized utility helicopter manufactured by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa
   Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems, a programming language used for automated test equipment
   ATLAS (simulation), a system used to conduct military Command Post Exercises (CPX) within the Royal Thai Army
   Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, an Army Air Cooperation aeroplane of the 1920s
  
  Other 
   Atlas (missile), a venerable line of space launch vehicles
   Atlas (architecture), a support or column sculpted in the form of a man
   Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the titan Atlas
   Atlas languages, a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
   Atlas Uranium Mill, a decommissioned uranium mill near Moab, Utah
   CF Atlas, a Mexican professional football club
   Radio Atlas, a radio station in Montenegro
   Atlas Vampire, the nickname of the assailant of the unsolved "Vampire Murder" in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1932
   Atlas Economic Research Foundation, an incubator for free market think tanks
  
   Atlas (1863 - 1885), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
   The Atlas (building), a tower in Midtown New York City
   Atlas, a book size
   Atlas, one of the main characters in the game BioShock.