Atlas

Name

1. (Greek, countable, uncountable) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
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11. (US, countable, uncountable) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

Noun

A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈætləs/

Etymology

From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.