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Mesa

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  2. 2
    Acronym of Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  3. 3
    A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Colorado.
  5. 5
    A city in Washington.
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  1. 6
    A town in Mozambique.
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    flat tableland with steep edges wordnet
  3. 3
    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.

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