peak

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This spillage may not peak for 12-36 hours.

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the most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak"

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noun

the most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak"

noun

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

noun

the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for peak.

noun

the most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak"

noun

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

See also: flower, prime, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush

noun

the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

See also: crown, crest, top, tip, summit

noun

a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"

noun

the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"

noun

a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

verb

to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"

Example sentences

This spillage may not peak for 12-36 hours.

A peak at the prospect's Facebook page answers all of them.

"I had already been doing Ruby for a couple years when all of this hype came to a peak.

What sort of cover art should we use for the book?How about a snow-capped mountain peak?

I could be wrong, but I think I remember the peak to peak bending at the wing-tip was in the order of ten stories.

Strange productivity peak recorded in the IT sector during the past 16 hours

He kept doubling down and doubling down, then at right about the peak he told himself "I have as much money as I'll ever need if I cash out now.

"You know what, though: the response function around the limit is not a smooth bell curve; it drops sharply below the x axis as you go past the peak.

"As a doctor, however, someone like this - a top professional at the peak of their career - would probably make about $400,000.

You know, the kind of mountain peak where people die either for lack of oxygen, or because crevasses open randomly across the landscape.

To be honest, being an early employee is a lottery ticket and, generally speaking, a shitty deal.

I average around 130 megabits per second of transfer - constantly, peaking at 150mbps I'm transferring roughly 40 terabytes of data per month.

As well as reading the data from the plot, it revealed a peak that had been covered up with a square - the author had deliberately obscured a peak in their data that was inconvenient.

I remember pushing back over dinner table discussions with various speakers at conferences that this attitude was hurting the community.

> Gillis Cashman, a managing partner at MC Partners in Boston, says it makes sense to charge extra to big content providers like Netflix, whose services at peak hours can sometimes consume more than 30 percent of total Internet traffic.