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How to use atlas in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun

Atlas means a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text. Example: “This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.”

Examples of atlas by meaning

nounA detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be...

  • An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs1904: Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs...
  • There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.1991, Alan C. F. Colchester, David J. Hawkes, editors, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Springer, →ISBN, page 154
  • Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the anatomical atlas', is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)

nounThe uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.

  • Ribs and spines show through the thin layer of meat left on the carcase, and, where the head meets the body, the crucial first vertebra – the atlas – is exposed.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 174

nounAn image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them...

  • a glyph atlas used in font rendering
  • a texture atlas

More sentences with atlas

  • This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.From the entry map
  • A stereotaxic atlas is a collection of sections of the brain with coordinates for stereotaxic surgery.From the entry stereotaxic
  • Back then there was no satnav — you needed to keep a paper atlas in the delivery van and to consult it daily.From the entry satnav
  • Notice the placement of the amygdala in the high-field atlas with basolateral, basomedial, and centromedial subfields.2015 May 15, Michael I. Miller et al., “Network Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease via MRI Based Shape Diffeomorphometry and…. From the entry centromedial
  • Anyone interested in Colorado ferroequinology, get yourself a copy of the DeLorme atlas.1993 December 5, J. Alan Septimus, “Re: altitudes (was Re: Engines (Re: Amtrak derails in Boise ...))”, in rec.railroad (Usenet). From the entry ferroequinology
  • Laboratory manuals of paleopathology have long taken the form of atlases illustrating the skeletal changes wrought by various diseases.2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology…. From the entry wrought
  • A collection of surface patches that together cover all of the points of S is called an atlas for S.2016 September 30, Kristopher Tapp, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics), Springer, →ISBN…. From the entry coordinate chart
  • A general atlas in 45 sheets of coloured maps and diagrams intended for use in the secondary schools of România.1924, Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society’s Collection, Royal Geographical Society, page 254. From the entry România
  • Type 1 facetal malalignment was when the facet of atlas was dislocated anterior to the facet of axis on lateral imaging and simulates lumbosacral listhesis.2015 July 28, Atul Goel, “Craniovertebral Junction Instability: A Review of Facts about Facets”, in Asian Spine Journal, volume 9, →DOI. From the entry listhesis
  • Atlases, histories, directories, Carleton, Seagar, etc.1972 February 29, “Antiques and Collections”, in Jackson Citizen Patriot, 136th year, number 177, Jackson, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21…. From the entry Michigana
  • We crack on eastbound, passing the station at Worksop and that at Retford Low Level (I'm following the route with great interest thanks to my Quail atlas).2022 December 14, Pip Dunn, “Caroline is ready for inspection...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 51. From the entry crack on
  • As far as it is discernible from the available literature, methodological investigations of isogramy have hitherto relied on introspection and manual searches of sources such as dictionaries and atlases.2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor…. From the entry isogramy
  • But the name of Grand Fenwick doesn't occur in any history book, or show up in any atlas, unless it also maps Ruritania, Syldavia, Borduria, Oz or even Shangri-La.2016 September 18, Vikas Datta, “The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism”, in The News Minute, archived from the…. From the entry Borduria
  • We use high-field 11T atlasing to demonstrate that the network changes are occurring at the lateral most extent of the medial temporal lobe network in the high field atlas.2015 May 15, Michael I. Miller et al., “Network Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease via MRI Based Shape Diffeomorphometry and…. From the entry atlasing
  • The subfield parcelation of the ERC in our high field atlas actually reflects the differences in the cellular and neuronal densities in Layer II based on stereological analysis.2015 May 15, Michael I. Miller et al., “Network Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease via MRI Based Shape Diffeomorphometry and…. From the entry parcelation
  • The atlases can be used to reconstruct, or deformably register, the surface model of an object from just two to four 2D x-ray projections of the object.2005, James Duncan, MICCAI 2005:, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry deformably
  • He threw himself down on the far side and saw a white, hellishly misshapen creature pulling itself from beneath a jackstraw tumble of atlases and travel volumes.1990, Stephen King, “The Library Policeman”, in Four past Midnight. From the entry jackstraw
  • In an atlas, too, the land is man's, and all coloured to show his claim to it — in vivid contrast to the universal independent blueness of the sea.1905, H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants. From the entry blueness

Meaning of atlas

  1. noun A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
  2. noun A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
  3. noun A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.

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Questions about atlas in a sentence

How do you use atlas in a sentence?
Atlas is used as a noun. For example: “This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.”
What is a short sentence with atlas?
“a texture atlas”
What does atlas mean?
Atlas means a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

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