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plateaulike

plateaulike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a plateau.

Adjective

plateaulike (comparative more plateaulike, superlative most plateaulike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a plateau.
    • In other words, by accepting the oracle's word and insisting that inflation occurred, you would be forced by the Planck data to the weird conclusion that inflation started with a plateaulike energy density curve despite all its problems.2017 January 2, Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt & Abraham Loeb, “Cosmic Inflation Theory Faces Challenges”, in Scientific American
    • Unlike most meteor showers that peak on one or two nights, these are long-running meteor showers that have plateaulike peaks that extend through the first half of the month.2022 April 11, Brian Lada, “Moon to turn red during last total lunar eclipse until 2025”, in AccuWeather

Forms of plateaulike

comparativemore plateaulike
superlativemost plateaulike

Origin of plateaulike

From plateau + -like.

Questions about plateaulike

What does plateaulike mean?
Plateaulike means resembling or characteristic of a plateau.
What part of speech is plateaulike?
Plateaulike is an adjective.

Words near plateaulike in the dictionary

  1. plateau pikas
  2. Plateau's law
  3. Plateau's laws
  4. plateaued
  5. plateauing
  6. plateaulike
  7. plateaus
  8. plateaux
  9. plateband
  10. platebands
  11. platebound

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