mesa

Noun

Synonyms: table Mesa

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

flat tableland with steep edges“the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water”Synonyms: table
a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of PhoenixSynonyms: Mesa

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

mesa \me"sa\ (m[asl]"s[.a]), n. [Sp.] A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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.

["Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al, Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)].

["Early Experience with Mesa", Geschke et al, CACM 20(8):540-552 (Aug 1977)].