Mensa
Meanings
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- Mensa International, an organization for people with very high IQs.
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- A summer constellation of the southern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations of Hydrus and Volans.
noun
- In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.
- The upper surface of an altar.
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Etymology
From Latin mensa (“table”). The organization promotes itself as a "round-table" society in which differences in the backgrounds of its members are considered irrelevant.
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