Plateau

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Plateau may refer to:

In geography, geology and earth science:

• Plateau, an area that is relatively flat at an important altitude
  • Dissected plateau, a highly eroded plateau which may have sharp relief
  • Oceanic plateau, a submarine area higher that the normal sea floor depth

People:

• Joseph Plateau (1801–1883), a Belgian mathematician

Places:

• Plateau State, Nigeria, a state in Nigeria
• Plateau Department, a department of Benin
• The Plateau, a neighbourhood in Montreal, part of the borough of Plateau-Mont-Royal

In mathematics:

• Plateau's problem
• Plateau's laws
• Plateau surface
• Plateau contour
• Plateau (mathematics), a region where a function is constant

In music:

• Plateau (song), a Meat Puppets song popularized by Nirvana
• PlatEAU (band), an electronic band

Other uses:

• A Thousand Plateaus, a 1980 book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the second part of Capitalism and Schizophrenia
• Plateau phase, in physiology and human sexuality, the second stage of sexual arousal in the Masters and Johnson model
• Plateau (game), abstract strategy game

Plateaux, the French plural for Plateau (the word is of French origin) may refer to:

Places:

• Plateaux Department (Congo)
• Plateaux Department (Gabon)
• Plateaux Region, Togo
• Plateau, Côte d'Ivoire
• Plateau, Nova Scotia

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