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What does peak mean?

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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.
  3. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point
  4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated
  5. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail
  6. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
  7. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
  8. (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
  1. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
  2. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
  2. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
  3. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
Verb
  1. Misspelling of pique.
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