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▸ noun: The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
▸ noun: (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
▸ noun: (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
▸ noun: (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
▸ noun: (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
▸ noun: (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
▸ noun: (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
▸ noun: (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
▸ verb: (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
▸ verb: (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To reach a highest degree or maximum.
▸ verb: To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
▸ adjective: At the greatest extent; maximum.
▸ adjective: (slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
▸ adjective: (MLE) Bad.
▸ adjective: (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate.
▸ adjective: (Internet slang) Very good or high-quality.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ verb: (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans. [(gender-critical slang) To cause one to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views.]
▸ noun: Alternative form of peag (“wampum”). [Wampum.]
▸ verb: Misspelling of pique. [(transitive)]
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mountain peak,
volcanic peak,
glacial peak,
submarine peak,
underwater peak,
rocky peak,
alpine peak,
pyramidal peak,
domed peak,
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