plateau 的 3 个定义
plural pla·teaus, pla·teaux [pla-tohz or, especially British, plat-ohz]. /plæˈtoʊz or, especially British, ˈplæt oʊz/.
- 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.
pla·teaued, pla·teau·ing.
- 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.
pla·teaued, pla·teau·ing.
- to cause to remain at a stable level, especially to prevent from rising or progressing: Rising inflation plateaued sales income.
plateau 近义词
level; flat, often high, land
更多plateau例句
- On this week’s episode of Weirdest Thing, I explain why competitive eating has reached a performance plateau—and what it would take for a professional eater to reach the literal limits of human swallowing speed.
- As the numbers of cases slowly drift down toward a plateau well above most industrialized countries, senior officials have begun speaking of the virus in the past tense.
- DOH officials have said the decline in new cases appeared to have leveled off and reached a plateau between 2015 and 2018 when the number of new cases remained relatively stable.
- One thing about working in the Dry Valleys is that you can get these huge winds, 70-80 miles per hour, coming off the polar plateau.
- The resulting plateau in nationwide cases since May has been ticking upward in recent weeks.
- But he has somehow leapt to a higher plateau during the last few years—all the more amazing given his precarious health.
- One cold October day in 1968, I climbed out of a warm creek on the Yellowstone Plateau and came face to face with a huge grizzly.
- In those countries the study revealed little evidence of any plateau.
- Those carbs need to be burned with cardio, or else weight loss will plateau.
- The teams of service personnel, all of whom have physical or cognitive injuries, have walked 335km across the Antarctic Plateau.
- A short distance off was another ridge or spur of the mountain, widening out into almost a plateau.
- Massed on the plateau above the mule-path, the whole population of the village stood to watch them down the steep descent.
- On the afternoon of July 5th it fell to the lot of Macdonald to attempt to seize the plateau which formed the Austrian centre.
- It was one of those brilliant clear crisp days with which that high plateau can put even California to the blush.
- A plateau is defined as a high lowland; therefore, this section is higher in elevation than the Coastal Plain region.