atlantes

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.
5. 5.The uppermost vertebra of the neck.