Globe vs Atlas - What's the difference?
globe | atlas |
Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
The planet Earth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
(dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
* 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
* Milton
To become spherical
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A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
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.
* 1904 : Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs ,
* 1991 : Alan C. F. Colchester and David J. Hawkes [eds.], Information Processing in Medical Imaging ,
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
* 2003 : Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart ,
(topology) 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.
(anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
* {{quote-book, author = (William Stukeley)
, title =
, year = 1734
, page = 58
, passage = There are of these glands upon the first vertebra'' of the neck of the ''atlas ; on which the head turns...
}}
One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
(architecture) A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
(paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
A rich satin fabric.
As nouns the difference between globe and atlas
is that globe is any spherical (or nearly spherical) object while atlas is a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.As proper nouns the difference between globe and atlas
is that globe is a city in Arizona while Atlas is son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.As a verb globe
is to become spherical.globe
English
(wikipedia globe)Noun
(en noun)- the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
- (John Locke)
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
- Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
Synonyms
* (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol IIIDerived terms
* globe-trotter * show globe * snowglobeVerb
(glob)atlas
English
(wikipedia atlas)Noun
(en-noun)main title(J. & A. Churchill)
- An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
page 154] ([http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-54246-9?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 9783540542469)
- In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas .
- Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the anatomical 'atlas' , is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.
page 19] ([http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-40262-6?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 9783540402626)
- Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.