mesas

Noun

mesa (plural mesas)

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.
2. a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
   • The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

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