[mey-suh] 
| a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico. |
[mey-suh] | a city in central Arizona, near Phoenix. 152,453. |
[lah mey-suh] | a city in SW California. 50,342. |
| me·sa (mā'sə) n. A broad, flat-topped elevation with one or more clifflike sides, common in the southwest United States. [Spanish, table, mesa, from Old Spanish, table, from Latin mēnsa.] |
| Me·sa (mā'sə) A city of south-central Arizona east of Phoenix. It is a winter resort. Population: 448,000. |
| mesa (mā'sə) Pronunciation Key
An area of high land with a flat top and two or more steep, clifflike sides. Mesas are larger than buttes and smaller than plateaus, and are common in the southwest United States. |
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)].
| MESA microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration |