a small, high plateau or flat tableland with steep sides, esp. in the SW U.S.
Origin of mesa
Spanish from Classical Latin mensa, a table: see mensal
noun
- An example of a mesa is a flat plateau that is elevated and looks like a table.
- An example of Mesa is a city near Phoenix.
The definition of a mesa is a flat piece of land with steep sides, or a city in Arizona.
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Mesa
city in SC Ariz., on the Salt River, near Phoenix
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noun
A broad, flat-topped elevation with one or more clifflike sides, common in the southwest United States.
Origin of mesa
Spanish table, mesa from Old Spanish table from Latin mēnsa
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Monument Valley, Utah
Mesa
A city of south-central Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.x
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An area of high land with a flat top and two or more steep, clifflike sides. Mesas are larger than buttes and smaller than plateaus, and are common in the southwest United States.
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Noun
Proper noun
- A city in Arizona
- A CDP in California
- An unincorporated community in Colorado
- A city in Washington
- A town in Mozambique
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mesa - Computer Definition
A semiconductor process used in the 1960s for creating the sublayers in a transistor. Its deep etching gave way to the planar process.
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Sentence Examples
- They rode across a mesa and then descended to a wide creek.
- Such land is found in Palencia, and in the Mesa de Ocana, where it yields abundant crops; and many of the northern mountains are well wooded.
- Mesa Verde National Park, the most popular of these spectacular ruins, was but one of thousands in the area where the bikers camped.
- They are extensive grassy plains, the lowest being the bed of an ancient inland lake about which is a broad terrace (mesa), the talus perhaps of the ancient encircling highlands.
- To the south of the mesa (tableland) on which it lies is the valley of Four tain Creek.
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