Peak

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Peak or PEAKS may refer to:

Clothing

• Peak or Peak Sport, a sneakers brand from China

Computing

• BIAS Peak, a professional audio editing program on the Apple platform
• GeeksPhone Peak, a mobile phone
• PEAKS (software), a proteomic mass spectrometry software, used to identify and quantitate proteins/peptides.
• The British English term for the part of a hat known as the visor in American English

Geography and geology

• Hubbert peak theory or peak oil, a theory that oil production worldwide is expected to reach a maximum level after which it will decline
• Lenin Peak (Kyrgyz: Ленин Чокусу, Russian: Пик Ленина; Tajik: қуллаи Ленин, renamed қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино in July 2006), rises to 7,134 metres (23,406 ft) in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
• A mountain peak, see summit
  • More specifically, a pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point

Mathematics and physics

• Peak electricity usage times or peak demand, see Energy demand management
• Peak (geometry), an (n-3)-dimensional element of a polytope
• The highest, or sometimes the highest and lowest (see peak-to-peak), points on a varying waveform

Media

• Peak (novel), by Roland Smith
• Peak Records, a record label

Pharmacology

• Peak (pharmacology) or when a drug reaches its maximum plasma concentrations

Places

• Peak District in the Midlands of England
• Peak, the former name of Ravenscar, North Yorkshire, a village in England
• Victoria Peak, also known as The Peak, in Hong Kong
• Peak, a village in Ya Tung, Cambodia

Psychology

• Peak experiences

Transportation

• A nickname used to refer to the British Rail Class 44 diesel locomotives, and also classes 45 and 46
• The highest corner of a four-sided, fore-aft sail
• Another name for the rush hour

See also

• Peek (disambiguation)
• The Peak (disambiguation)

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