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American Tower Corp./MA – ‘8-K’ for 8/11/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Thursday, 8/11/22, at 4:17pm ET · For: 8/11/22 · Accession #: 1053507-22-104 · File #: 1-14195

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 8/11/22  American Tower Corp./MA           8-K:1       8/11/22   11:297K

Current Report — Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     57K 
 6: R1          Cover Cover                                         HTML     72K 
 9: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     11K 
 7: XML         XBRL Instance -- amt-20220811_htm                    XML     57K 
 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      9K 
 3: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- amt-20220811_def                 XML     53K 
 4: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- amt-20220811_lab                      XML    118K 
 5: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- amt-20220811_pre               XML     53K 
 2: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- amt-20220811                          XSD     17K 
10: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               17±    24K 
11: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001053507-22-000104-xbrl      Zip     25K

‘EX-101.DEF’ — XBRL Definitions — amt-20220811_def

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Filing Submission 0001053507-22-000104 – Alternative Formats (Word / Rich Text, HTML, Plain Text, et al.)

American Tower Corp./MA – ‘8-K’ for 8/11/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Thursday, 8/11/22, at 4:17pm ET · For: 8/11/22 · Accession #: 1053507-22-104 · File #: 1-14195

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