mesa : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mesa	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for mesa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mesa n flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" Synonym(s): mesa, table a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Mesa, AZ (city, FIPS 46000) Location: 33.41774 N, 111.74034 W Population (1990): 288091 (140468 housing units) Area: 281.3 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 85201, 85202, 85203, 85204, 85205, 85206, 85207, 85208, 85210, 85213 Mesa, CO Zip code(s): 81643 Mesa, ID Zip code(s): 83643 Mesa, WA (town, FIPS 45180) Location: 46.57319 N, 118.99956 W Population (1990): 252 (97 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99343
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)].