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FLAT-TOPPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flat-topped mean?
• FLAT-TOPPED (adjective)
The adjective FLAT-TOPPED has 1 sense:
1. having a flat or flattened upper surface
Familiarity information: FLAT-TOPPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a flat or flattened upper surface
Synonyms:
flat-top; flat-topped
Similar:
topped (having a top of a specified character)
Context examples
The region is studded with flat-topped mountains.
(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)
A red or violaceous flat-topped, papular eruption that is induced by exposure to a variety of medications or environmental agents.
(Lichenoid Drug Eruption, NCI Thesaurus)
A chain of extinct underwater volcanoes rising 1000m or higher above the sea floor, either flat-topped or peaked and located in the eastern North Atlantic.
(Dreizack seamounts, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
The sun was yet low in the heaven, and the red cows stood in the long shadow of the elms, chewing the cud and gazing with great vacant eyes at two horsemen who were spurring it down the long white road which dipped and curved away back to where the towers and pinnacles beneath the flat-topped hill marked the old town of Winchester.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Those are just what the new research has detected at some flat-topped mountains in the Sisyphi Montes region examined with the spacecraft's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).
(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)
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