ALL meanings of plateau
pla·teau
P p - noun plateau geography 1
- noun plateau fixed level 1
- intransitive verb plateau line: stay at level 1
- noun plural plateau a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons. 1
- noun plural plateau a period or state of little or no growth or decline: to reach a plateau in one's career. 1
- noun plural plateau 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. 1
- noun plural plateau a flat stand, as for a centerpiece, sometimes extending the full length of a table. 1
- verb without object plateau 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. 1
- verb with object plateau to cause to remain at a stable level, especially to prevent from rising or progressing: Rising inflation plateaued sales income. 1
- countable noun plateau A plateau is a large area of high and fairly flat land. 0
- countable noun plateau If you say that an activity or process has reached a plateau, you mean that it has reached a stage where there is no further change or development. 0
- verb plateau If something such as an activity, process, or cost plateaus or plateaus out, it reaches a stage where there is no further change or development. 0
- noun plateau a wide mainly level area of elevated land 0
- noun plateau a relatively long period of stability; levelling off 0
- verb plateau to remain at a stable level for a relatively long period 0
- noun plateau 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) 0
- noun plateau an elevated tract of more or less level land; tableland; mesa 0
- noun plateau a period, level, etc. of relative stability, or relatively little change, as can be shown by a flat extent on a graph, etc.; specif., a period in which an individual's learning rate does not improve 0
- intransitive verb plateau to become relatively stable or constant, as in position 0