spike

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We got an immense spike in unique IPs.

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Quick take

a transient variation in voltage or current

Meaning at a glance

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a transient variation in voltage or current

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sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; "spikes provide greater traction"

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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spike.

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a transient variation in voltage or current

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sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; "spikes provide greater traction"

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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

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(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis

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a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline; "the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor"

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a very high narrow heel on women's shoes

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each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves); "the second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game"; "golfers' spikes damage the putting greens"

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a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)

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a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal); "one of the spikes impaled him"

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any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object; "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"

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a large stout nail; "they used spikes to fasten the rails to a railroad tie"

verb

stand in the way of

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pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"

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secure with spikes

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bring forth a spike or spikes; "my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now"

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add alcohol to (beverages); "the punch is spiked!"

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manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked"

Example sentences

We got an immense spike in unique IPs.

There's absolutely no basis for assuming that traffic will continue at the spiked rate.

If you stress out a human long enough, you cause first a huge ongoing spike in cortisol etc., and later, a serious drop as the damage is done.

Set up an autoresponder politely telling folks that you're a single person and the spike in requests is a bit overwhelming.

If you plotted the announcements of new generation mining gear against those charts in the same way Google News does you'd likely find that each big spike is equal to in time as new_mining_gear_announcement_date + new_mining_grear_delivery_date4.

The spike probably had a lot to do with the release of Tron: Legacy on December 17 who had a character named Quorra which could easily be misspelled as Quora.

In the world of small website acquisitions, you'll be valued at something like 1X your previously proven annual revenue, not at a linear projection from what spike day looked like.

That is because cortisol is required to rise to the "stress" of every day living standing up from sitting is a stress, making decisions, etc., all create tiny spikes of cortisol to help you cope.

But a book teaching how to write code in the language is not a throwaway spike solution, and in that environment you should either explicitly tell readers you're teaching them a style that nobody else uses in production code or — and this is my preference — just write idiomatic code.