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Atlases

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

📖 Definitions of "Atlases"

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    (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.

  4. 4

    A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.

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