Mesa
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈmeɪ.sə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mesa is a noun meaning A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
Meaning
A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
More Meanings
- (electronics) a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
Example Sentences
The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
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].
Word Forms
- mesas
Synonyms for mesa
Depending on context, synonyms include table.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include table, tableland, plateau, panel, cartouche, shelf.
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