mesa en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- māʹsə (UK, US)
- /ˈmɛ.sə/ (UK, US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈmeɪ.sə/ (UK, US)
Etymology
First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.
Meanings
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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.
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].
2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times:Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
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a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mesas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
Black Mesa · Big Mountain Mesa · mesalike · First Mesa · nanomesa · Mesa County · Second Mesa · Third Mesa · Antelope Mesa
Relateds
Translations (20)
ru столова́я гора́ (flat area of land) · es mesa (flat area of land) · id mesa (flat area of land) · tr masa dağı (flat area of land) · it altopiano (flat area of land) · no platå (flat area of land) · fi ylätasanko (flat area of land) · hu fennsík (flat area of land) · eo tablomonto (flat area of land) · de Tafelberg (flat area of land) · nl tafelberg (flat area of land) · he הַר שֻׁלְחָן (flat area of land) · cmn 臺地 /台地 (flat area of land) · fi pöytävuori (flat area of land) · nv dah azką́ (flat area of land) · eo altebenaĵo (flat area of land) · vi núi mặt bàn (flat area of land) · bg плато (flat area of land) · sv taffelberg (flat area of land) · tl talampas (flat area of land)