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Plateau has several meanings:
- In geology or earth science, a plateau is an area of relative low relief (i.e., relatively flat) at an important altitude, usually attributed to tectonic uplift or by sediment accumulation. If the uplift was recent, the area may be very flat. If it is highly eroded - a dissected plateau - it may have sharp relief. Also used for submarine areas higher that the normal sea floor depth (oceanic plateau)
- In physiology and human sexuality, plateau refers to the second stage (of four) of sexual arousal in the currently accepted Masters and Johnson model
- As a proper name, Plateau usually refers to the Belgian mathematician Joseph Plateau (1801-1883)
- A Thousand Plateaus is a 1980 book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the second part of Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- Plateau (song) is a Meat Puppets song popularized by Nirvana
- PlatEAU (band) an electronic band
- Plateau State, Nigeria is a state in Nigeria
- Plateau Department is a department of Benin
- Plateau (mathematics) in mathematics is a region where a function is constant
- The Plateau, a neighbourhood in Montreal, part of the borough of Plateau-Mont-Royal
- Plateaux is the French plural for this word (originally French) and the name of several subnational entities:
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