mesa

name

1. A place in the United States:
2. A place in the United States:
3. A place in the United States:
4. A place in the United States:
5. A place in the United States:
6. A town in Mozambique.

noun

Etymology: First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.

1. 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.”

   “Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.”

2. a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

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