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
 * The Plateau, a neighbourhood in Montreal, 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
 * 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 (game), an abstract strategy board game
 * 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