mesa

Definitions

1. A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
2. Acronym of Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
3. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
4. table
5. A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
6. dinner table
7. a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
8. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
9. A city in Washington.
10. desk (in an office)
11. A town in Mozambique.
12. bureau, committee

Equivalents

Examples

“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].”

“The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.”

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