A mesa is an elevated area of land with a flat top, surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs.

Mesa or MESA may also refer to:

Geography

Mozambique

  • Mesa, Mozambique, a town in Cabo Delgado province

Spain

  • Mesa (river), in the Sierra de Solorio range area

United States

  • Mesa, Arizona, a city in Maricopa County
  • Mesa, California, a census-designated place in Inyo County
  • Mesa County, Colorado
  • Mesa, Colorado, an unincorporated town
  • Mesa, Idaho, an unincorporated town in Adams County
  • Mesa, Washington, a city in Franklin County

Education

  • Colorado Mesa University, a public university in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
  • Mesa Community College, a two-year college in Mesa, Arizona, United States
  • Mesa County Valley School District 51, a public school district in Mesa County, Colorado, United States
  • San Diego Mesa College, a two-year college in San Diego, California, United States

People

  • Mesa (surname)
  • Mesha (Hebrew: Mēša‘), Moabite king of the 9th century BC

Science and medicine

  • Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance
  • Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, an academic preparation program
  • Maximum entropy spectral estimation, spectral density estimation method
  • Methyl salicylate, chemical compound
  • Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
  • Mesa (wasp), a genus of thynnid wasp

Technology

  • Mesa (programming language)
  • Mesa (computer graphics), an open-source software implementation of the OpenGL, Vulkan and other specifications
  • MESA (seismic survey design software)
  • Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association, an international association of manufacturing execution systems companies
  • Mesa Boogie, also known as Mesa Engineering, an American manufacturer of guitar amplifiers
  • MESA Imaging, a Swiss time-of-flight camera manufacturer
  • Project MESA, a telecommunications standards collaboration
  • Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array, a surveillance radar system
  • Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly, a component of the Apollo Lunar Module

Transport

  • Mesa Air Group, an American commercial aviation holding company
  • Mesa Airlines, an American regional airline

Other uses

  • Meṣa, a solar month in the traditional Indian calendar, and a symbol in Hindu astrology
  • Mesha Sankranti, solar New Year in the Hindu calendar
  • Mesa (horse)
  • Middle East Studies Association of North America
  • Młoda Ekstraklasa, a Polish youth football league
  • Mesa, a chain of restaurants in the United States and the Bahamas owned by chef Bobby Flay
  • Mesa, home to the loose-knit community in the documentary Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa

See also

  • La Mesa (disambiguation)
  • Mesa transistor
  • Mesha (month)