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* enPR: pēk, IPA(key): /piːk/
* Rhymes: -iːk
* Homophones: peek, peke, pique
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English - Etymology 1
NOUN
PEAK (_plural_ PEAKS)
* A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
* The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
_The stock market reached a PEAK in September 1929._
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[1]," _New York Times_ (retrieved 24 October 2012):
By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its PEAK in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.
* (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
* (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
* (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
* (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
* (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of _y_ is at its maximum.
SYNONYMS
* apex, pinnacle, top, summit
* See also Wikisaurus:apex
DERIVED TERMS
* peakless
* peaklike
* peakwise
TRANSLATIONS
VERB
PEAK (_third-person singular simple present_ PEAKS, _present participle_ PEAKING, _simple past and past participle_ PEAKED)
* To reach a highest degree or maximum.
_Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to PEAK and ultimately decay._
* To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
* Holland
There PEAKETH up a mighty high mount.
SYNONYMS
* culminate
DERIVED TERMS
* off-peak
TRANSLATIONS
peak (plural peaks)
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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a
point; as, the peak, or front, of a
cap.
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The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
-
The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
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(geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a
hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
-
(nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
-
(nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
-
(nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
-
(mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle
peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)
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To reach a highest degree or maximum.
-
Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
-
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a
peak.
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