peak

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Pronunciation

• enPR: pēk, IPA: /piːk/, SAMPA: /pi:k/
• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophones: peek, peke, pique

Etymology 1

Noun

peak (plural peaks)

1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.

   The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.

3. (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.
4. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
5. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
6. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
7. (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

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• apex
• pinnacle
• top
• summit
• See also Wikisaurus:apex

Derived terms

• peakless
• peaklike
• peakwise

Translations

point, sharp end

Finnish: kärki (fi), lippa (fi) Georgian: წვერო (ka) Hungarian: csúcs (hu)

Japanese: 頂点 (chōten), 尖頭 (sentō) Romanian: vârf (ro) Russian: кончик (ru) (kónčik) m., остриё (ru) (ostrijó) n.

mountain top

Arabic: قمة (qémma) f. Armenian: գագաթ (hy) (gagat’) Chinese: 尖峰 (jiānfēng) Dutch: piek (nl) Esperanto: pinto (eo) Finnish: huippu (fi) French: cime (fr) f. Georgian: მწვერვალი (ka), პიკი (ka) German: Gipfel (de) m. Hungarian: csúcs (hu), hegycsúcs (hu), orom (hu)

Italian: cima (it) f. Japanese: 頂上 (こうじょう, chōjō), 山頂 (さんちょう, sanchō) Korean: 산꼭대기 (sankkokdaegi) Polish: szczyt (pl) Portuguese: pico (pt) m. Romanian: culme (ro), vârf (ro) Russian: вершина (ru) (veršína) f., пик (ru) (pik) m. Scottish Gaelic: mullach (gd) m. Spanish: cima (es) f. Swedish: topp (sv) c., spets (sv) c.

upper-after corner of sail

Scottish Gaelic: mullach (gd) m.

narrow part of bow

Finnish: keulapiikki

tip of anchor fluke

Finnish: kynsi (fi)

point where a function attains a maximum

Finnish: maksimipiste German: Maximum (de) n. Japanese: 最大値 (saidaichi), 尖頭値 (sentōchi)

Russian: пик (ru) (pik) m., максимум (ru) (máksimum) m. Swedish: topp (sv)

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Translations to be checked

Albanian: majë f. Catalan: cim m. Serbo-Croatian: vrh m.

Italian: culmine m. (1,2) Portuguese: cume m. (2) Romanian: vârf f. and m. Spanish: cima f.

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

1. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
   • Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.

Synonyms

• culminate

Derived terms

• off-peak

Translations

to reach a peak

Finnish: saavuttaa huippunsa

Etymology 2

Unknown

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

1. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.