(a.) Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.
(a.) Descended from Atlas.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(2) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(3) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
(4) On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
(5) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(6) "In the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on demand," he said.
(7) Familial occipitalization of the atlas with atlantalization of the axis was defined as a single congenital disease in Arabian horses following a clinical, radiologic, and morphologic study of 16 horses with congenital malformations of the occiput, atlas, and axis, and from a study of three reported cases.
(8) The promotion would come as News Corp continues to face legal investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.
(9) "We are going to be working this record for the next 18 months," says the boss of Atlantic, standing on a small podium surrounded by Astroturf.
(10) The Atlantic rollers aren't huge here but they are consistent.
(11) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
(12) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(13) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(14) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.
(15) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
(16) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".
(17) The intramembrane organization of the occluding junctions in the gill epithelium of the Atlantic hagfish, Myxine glutinosa, was studied by means of freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
(18) The spotted seatrout GTH beta-subunit was used as radioligand in a radioimmunoassay (RIA) with Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) GTH antiserum.
(19) British Airways says it will have a "limited supply" of chargers at the gate area to flights and Virgin Atlantic says that it has charger facilities available at airports for all the most popular devices.
(20) Operated by the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFC), based in Caterham, Surrey, it is one of 34 giant freezer vessels that regularly work the west African coast as part of the Pelagic Freezer Association (PFA) , which represents nine European trawler owners.
Atlas
Definition:
(n.) One who sustains a great burden.
(n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
(n.) A collection of maps in a volume
(n.) A volume of plates illustrating any subject.
(n.) A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
(n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.
(n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
(n.) A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.
Example Sentences:
(1) This section includes a description of the presentations on the pages, the use of color in the scans, and the use of certain advanced features of the ACTA-Scanner, the scanner used for the atlas.
(2) Students will use this computerized atlas interactively to learn the structure of the body and to understand their own bodies in health and disease.
(3) Familial occipitalization of the atlas with atlantalization of the axis was defined as a single congenital disease in Arabian horses following a clinical, radiologic, and morphologic study of 16 horses with congenital malformations of the occiput, atlas, and axis, and from a study of three reported cases.
(4) As for the liberals who are today pointing at an atlas and shrugging for the cameras, back then their parents were probably writing letters to the Times about the need for greater economic efficiency.
(5) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(6) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
(7) The corresponding transformation is chosen so that the modified atlas agrees with a set of CT or NMR images of the patient.
(8) Rheumatoid arthritis, which produces anterior displacement of the atlas over the dens to more than 10 mm, neurologic symptoms, or untreatable pain must be stabilized by means of C1-C2 fusion.
(9) Anterior atlas clefts (AACs) are rare developmental variants that may mimic fractures.
(10) Fissures in the anterior arch of the atlas are rare.
(11) Conventional anatomical atlases provide rigid spatial distribution of internal structures extracted from a single subject.
(12) Modeling of polyline vertices established from gray scale contour mapping and atlas reconstructions further enhance the spatial understanding of relationships to midline structures.
(13) Various neurological manifestations secondary to exceptional atlo-occipital and sometimes axis-atlas subluxations and medullary lesions as well as syndromes of the cauda equina.
(14) Surgical treatment for cervical myelopathy in os odontoideum with posterior instability is suggested as follows: in the absence of canal stenosis of the atlas (Group IIIA), atlantoaxial fusion in a reduced position is indicated; when associated with canal stenosis of the atlas (Group IIIB), laminectomy of the atlas followed by occiput-to-C2 arthrodesis is indispensable.
(15) Serial sections of five brainstems from adults with no known neurological disorders were stained for Nissl substance, acetylcholinesterase, and substance P. The topography, cytoarchitecture, and acetylcholinesterase reactivity of the tegmental nuclei were presented in a mini-atlas depicting sections cut in transverse and sagittal planes.
(16) Films such as Cloud Atlas and were turned down for co-production, despite having significant elements designed to accommodate Chinese sensibilities, while Zhang was thought to be referring to Iron Man 3 with the "one or two shots" line.
(17) The structures examined included the lower cranial and upper spinal nerves, the caudal brain stem and rostral spinal cord, the vertebral artery and its branches, the veins and dural sinuses at the craniovertebral junction, and the ligaments and muscles uniting the atlas, axis, and occipital bone.
(18) Treatment of choice is a laminectomy of the dorsal arch of the atlas and an osteoclastic dilatation of the foramen magnum but without opening of the dura.
(19) The native atlas planes were spaced at 2 mm intervals, sufficient axial sampling to permit the generation of oblique planar sections through the atlas space.
(20) The frequency of two non-metric skeletal traits, atlas bridging and clinoid bridging, were examined serially in a randomly chosen sample of 147 families who participated in the Burlington Growth Study.