Peak

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Peak may be:

  • A mountain
  • More specifically, a pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point
  • The highest form of something; for example, an athlete will reach a peak performance at sometime in their career
  • The British English term for the part of a hat known as the visor in American English
  • Peak (mathematics), an (n-3)-dimensional element of a polytope
  • Hubbert peak theory or peak oil, a theory that oil production worldwide is expected to reach a maximum level after which it will decline
  • PEAKS is a software package which performs de novo peptide sequencing and protein identification on mass spectrometry data.
  • A professional audio editing program on the Apple platform
  • Peak Practice, a British television drama series
  • The highest corner of a four-sided, fore-aft sail
  • A reference to a peak experience
  • A nicknamed used to refer to British class 44 diesel locomotives, and also classes 45 and 46, since Class 44s were named after British hills and mountains, but the name also stuck for the outwardly near identical Class 45s and 46s, even though these carried different names.
  • Stephen Peak, Australian lawyer and radio personality
  • An international scout and guide week-long camp, held in the grounds of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK every five years; the last two events were Peak 2000 & Peak 2005

Proper geographical names include:

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