flat-topped

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it has to do with flat-topped things being uncommon in nature.

Take the word 'mesa' in English, describing a flat-topped hill in the southwest.

If you're a non-Spanish speaker, you'll probably pronounce that last vowel as a schwa, and only have the flat-topped hill meaning in mind.

With sea levels 100-150 ft lower in the last ice age, many eroded to that level, leaving a flat-topped mountain that far beneath the surface.

When you enter Seoul from the airport by bus, you see a couple of flat-topped hills across the river next to the World Cup soccer stadium.

Evidence for this would be atolls having formed around volcanoes prior to the rapid fluctuations in sea level, but according to this article, at that time corals formed flat-topped reefs.

(Picture two flat-topped letter 'A's, one behind the other, with a crossbar going from the top of the front one to the top of the back one.

(You already covered that the roof must be flat-topped to accumulate snow and be more prone to leaks.) -On the subject of doors, make the main entrance in the back.

You wouldn't find anything unusual about them if you weren't used to the Korean landscape -- there are no naturally flat-topped hills around here -- but that's the old garbage dump for this city with a population of 10 million.

What'd help way more with waste is if they would stop making like 75% of the part count of modern sets short 1x1s and other really tiny—often flat-topped, because the box photo mustn't display any nubs, I guess—pieces.

>Words include tabulars (large flat-topped southern icebergs that break off from the Antarctic ice sheet and are usually over ten miles long) You must've derived your username from those trip(s) too I bet.

Decades ago, Hans Hass noticed that some atolls did not fit Darwin's model, and proposed that these formed because of better nutrient flow around the edges, but the prevalence of these flat-topped reefs suggests that is not the main story, either.

The problem is that this "extra" dynamic range arises from the inability to reproduce square waves (those flat-topped 0 dBFS regions in the article) in the analogue domain...

When you arrange point-topped hexagons into an approximately hexagonal shape, the combined "hexagon" is flat-topped.

Why does it say "pointy-topped hexagonal grid" when all the pictures are flat-topped?

In particular, modern architecture's alleged "form follows function" taking some bizarrely twisted thought processes to end up building flat-topped buildings in climates with large snowfall.