mesa

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈmeɪ.sə//
United Kingdom//ˈmɛ.sə//

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

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural: mesas

merry · Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.Merry · A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a…Meryl · A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Muriel.

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

Mesa · A place in the United States: A city in Maricopa County,…mess · A thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised,…Mess · A surname from German.

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