Definition of "Atlas"

(Greek mythology) 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.

A placename:

1. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.  examples

2. (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.  examples

3. (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.  examples

(countable) A surname.  examples

(astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

(astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.

A subgroup of the Berber languages.  examples