atlases

Noun

atlases noun

1. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
2. A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
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. 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.