mesa
A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
Example
“A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.”
Other meanings
a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
“The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.”
Synonyms
- table
A kind of
- plateau
Related words
- mesalike
- nanomesa
- Antelope Mesa
- Black Mesa
- First Mesa
- Big Mountain Mesa
- Mesa County
- Second Mesa
- Third Mesa
Word history
From Latin "mēnsa".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mesa” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.