Plateau (disambiguation)

A plateau is an area of flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area.

Plateau or plateaux or plateaus may also refer to:

Earth science

• 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), Belgian mathematician
• Pierre Plateau (1924–2018), French Roman Catholic prelate

Places

• Plateau Department, a department of Benin
• Plateau, Benin, an arrondissement in the Collines Department
• Plateau, a place name in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Le Plateau, a neighbourhood in Montreal, Canada
• Le Plateau (Gatineau), a neighbourhood in Gatineau, Canada
• Plateau (Praia), on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde
• Plateaux Department (Congo)
• Plateaux Department (Gabon)
• Lasithi Plateau, a high plain on Crete, Greece
• Plateau, Ivory Coast, a district of Abidjan
• Plateau (state), a state in Nigeria
• Plateau, São Tomé and Príncipe, a village in São Tomé and Príncipe
• Plateaux Region, Togo

Mathematics

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

Art and entertainment

• "Plateau" (song), by Meat Puppets, popularized by Nirvana
• PlatEAU (band), an electronic band
• "The Plateau" (Fringe), a television episode
• Plateau (museum), a defunct art gallery in Seoul, South Korea
• "Plateau", a song by Sakanaction from Adapt (2022)

Other uses

• Plateau effect, a reduction in the effectiveness of once effective measures over time
• Plateau phase, in physiology and human sexuality, the second stage of sexual arousal in the Masters and Johnson model
• Plateau Systems, a provider of talent management systems
• Plateau, the french word for tray

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Plateau
• All pages with titles containing Plateau