The Only Use of
plateau
in
Fahrenheit 451
- The most significant memory he had of Mildred, really, was of a little girl in a forest without trees (how odd!) or rather a little girl lost on a plateau where there used to be trees (you could feel the memory of their shapes all about) sitting in the center of the "living room."
p. 41.9plateau = high land that is reasonably flat
Definitions:
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(plateau as in: found on the plateau) high land that is reasonably flat
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(plateau as in: reached a plateau in our growth) a time of little change after more rapid change -- typically to stop increasing
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, the expression tibial plateau refers to the flat top portion of the tibia bone (running from the knee to the ankle).