ALL meanings of mesa
me·sa
M m - noun Technical meaning of mesa Xerox PARC, 1977. System and application programming for proprietary hardware: Alto, Dolphin, Dorado and Dandelion. Pascal-like syntax, ALGOL68-like semantics. An early version was weakly typed. Mesa's modules with separately compilable definition and implementation parts directly led to Wirth's design for Modula. Threads, coroutines (fork/join), exceptions, and monitors. Type checking may be disabled. Mesa was used internally by Xerox to develop ViewPoint, the Xerox Star, MDE, and the controller of a high-end copier. It was released to a few universitites in 1985. Succeeded by Cedar. 1
- noun mesa An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides, found in landscapes with horizontal strata. 1
- noun mesa geography: plateau or table 1
- noun mesa a city in SW California. 1
- countable noun mesa A mesa is a large hill with a flat top and steep sides; used mainly of hills in the south-western United States. 0
- noun mesa a flat tableland with steep edges, common in the southwestern US 0
- noun mesa city in SC Ariz., on the Salt River, near Phoenix: pop. 396,000 0
- noun mesa a small, high plateau or flat tableland with steep sides, esp. in the SW U.S. 0