Peak

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
 * 3)  The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
 * 4)  The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
 * 5)  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 Thesaurus:apex

Derived terms

 * peakless
 * peaklike
 * peakwise

Verb

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

Synonyms

 * culminate

Derived terms

 * off-peak

Verb

 * 1)  To become sick or wan.

Adjectives for Peak
pinnacled; singular; volcanic; dazzling furrowed; rounded;  perilous;  lambent herbless; snowy; rugged; airy; fierce; savage; glistening; bristling; glittering; isolated; barren; angular; mountain; celestial gigantic; lofty; successive (pi); precipitous single; steeple-like; sunlighted; abrupt; ermine-clad; pathless; frowning; craggy unique; brumal; jagged; environing (pi) rock; multitudinous (pi); scalped; snow-patched; fantastic; snow-covered; solstitial.

Verbs for Peak
ascend—; cap—; climb—; cuff—; culminate in—; push to—; rise to—; scale—; sharpen—; —commands;  —crowns;  — heightens; —hovers; —juts; —points; — projects; —rears' —soars; —tapers; —tops; —towers.

Thesaurus
acme, acme of perfection, all, allophone, alp, alveolar, apex, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apogee, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, be poised, bilabial, bill, billow, boom, bore, bottoming out, break, breakers, brim, brow, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cacuminal, cap, capstone, ceiling, cerebral, check, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, climax, cloud nine, cog, comb, comber, consonant, consummate, consummation, continuant, cooling off, crag, crash, crest, crisis, crown, culmen, culminate, culmination, dash, decline, dental, depression, diphthong, dirty water, dissimilation, downturn, droop, dwindle, eagre, ebb and flow, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, edge, elevation, eminence, end, epenthetic vowel, expanding economy, expansion, explosive, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, fade, fail, fang, flag, frost, glide, glottal, glottalization, gravity wave, ground swell, growth, guttural, harrow, head, heave, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell, height, high growth rate, high noon, high point, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, hill, hilltop, ice, jag, knoll, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, languish, laryngeal, last word, lateral, lift, limit, lingual, liquid, lofty peak, lop, lose strength, low, manner of articulation, market expansion, maximum, meridian, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mount, mountain, mountaintop, mute, nasal, ne plus ultra, nib, no place higher, noon, nth degree, occlusive, outtop, overarch, overtop, palatal, parasitic vowel, peaking, pecten, perfection, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, pic, pico, pike, pine, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, plosive, point, pole, popple, precipice, projection, prosperity, prothetic vowel, rake, ratchet, recession, recovery, retroflex, ridge, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, roll, roller, roof, rough water, run down, sawtooth, scend, sea, segmental phoneme, semivowel, send, seventh heaven, sink, sky, slowdown, slump, smash, snag, snaggle, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, stop, summit, surd, surf, surge, surmount, swell, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, the whole, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tip, tip-top, tooth, top, top off, top out, tor, toss, transition sound, triphthong, trough, tsunami, ultimate, undulate, undulation, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, upturn, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, velar, vertex, very top, visor, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, waste, waste away, water wave, wave, wavelet, weaken, white horses, whitecaps, wilt, wither, wither away, zenith

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 頂点 (chōten), 尖頭 (sentō)


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: кончик, остриё


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 尖峰 (jiānfēng)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , orom
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 頂上 (こうじょう, chōjō), 山頂 (さんちょう, sanchō)
 * Korean: 산꼭대기 (sankkokdaegi)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: keulapiikki


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: maksimipiste
 * German: Maximum
 * Japanese: 最大値 (saidaichi), 尖頭値 (sentōchi)


 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * : majë
 * : cim
 * : vrh


 * : culmine (1,2)
 * : cume (2)
 * : vârf and
 * : cima

Verb

 * Finnish: saavuttaa huippunsa