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plateau
[ pla-tohor, especially British, plat-oh ]
noun
- a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- a period or state of little or no growth or decline:
to reach a plateau in one's career.
- Psychology. a period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph.
- a flat stand, as for a centerpiece, sometimes extending the full length of a table.
verb (used without object)
- to reach a state or level of little or no growth or decline, especially to stop increasing or progressing; remain at a stable level of achievement; level off:
After a period of uninterrupted growth, sales began to plateau.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to remain at a stable level, especially to prevent from rising or progressing:
Rising inflation plateaued sales income.
Plateau
1/ ˈæəʊ /
noun
- a state of central Nigeria, formed in 1976 from part of Benue-Plateau State: tin mining. Capital: Jos. Pop: 3 178 712 (2006). Area: 30 913 sq km (11 936 sq miles)
plateau
2/ ˈæəʊ /
noun
- a wide mainly level area of elevated land
- a relatively long period of stability; levelling off
the rising prices reached a plateau
verb
- to remain at a stable level for a relatively long period
plateau
- An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land. Plateaus make up about 45 percent of the Earth's land surface.
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of plateau1
Example Sentences
The statewide decrease mirrors a plateau in overdose deaths among unhoused people in Los Angeles County as public health officials ramped up the distribution of naloxone last year.
Two helicopter pilots and three crew members found the exhausted hiker stranded off the side of a cliff, about 20 to 30 feet from the plateau.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Covered with seagrass and interspersed with small coral reefs, the bank is among the largest submerged ocean plateaus in the world — less than 33 feet deep in some areas.
On a development curve of Lando, we are not plateauing yet.
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