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mesa

noun
/ˈmeɪ.sə/UK

Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.

  1. derived from mēnsa
  2. borrowed from mesa

Definitions

  1. A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

    • A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
    • Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
    • Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

  2. a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

    • The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

  3. A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.

    2. An unincorporated community in Colorado.

    3. A city in Washington.

    4. A town in Mozambique.

    5. Acronym of Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration.

The neighborhood

Derived

Antelope Mesa, Big Mountain Mesa, Black Mesa, First Mesa, Mesa County, mesalike, nanomesa, Second Mesa, Third Mesa

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA