peaked
Meaning
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Having a peak or peaks.
Synonyms
raw boned
trenchant
sharp-featured
aculeous
coming to a point
slab sided
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/piːkt/
Etymology
See peak.
New
peak
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- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
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