Atlasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈætləs/, (sometimes) /ˈætlɪs/
• (米国発音) enPR: ătʹləs, IPA: /ˈætləs/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈæʈ.ləs/, (spelling pronunciation) /ˈəʈ.ləs/
• 韻: -ætləs
• Homophone: Atlas

語源 1

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).

名詞

atlas (plural atlases or atlantes)

1. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

   Coordinate term: gazetteer

2. A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.

   Coordinate term: gazetteer

3. (chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) 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.
   • 1904: Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs, main title (J. & A. Churchill)

     An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs

   • 1991, Alan C. F. Colchester, David J. Hawkes, editors, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Springer, →ISBN, page 154:

     In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.

   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

     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”.

   • 2003, Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Springer, →ISBN, page 19:

     Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.

4. (differential geometry, topology) A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
5. (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.

   Synonyms: atlanto-, atlo-

   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, part II, page 58:

     There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns […]

   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 174:

     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.

6. One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
7. (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.

   Synonyms: atlantid, telamon

   Coordinate term: caryatid

8. (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
9. (computer graphics) An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.

   a glyph atlas used in font rendering

   a texture atlas

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語源 2

From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas, “satin”).

名詞

atlas (countable and uncountable, plural atlases or atlasses)

1. (historical) A rich satin fabric.
   • 1887, Sir William Hedges, Sir Henry Yule, The Diary of William Hedges, Esq.:

     I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]

   • 2016, Pius Malekandathil, The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India, page 53:

     Surat was an important port on the west coast of India from where atlases were exported on a large scale […]

アナグラム

• AASLT, Aalst, Salta, salat, talas