Peak
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
Proper geographical names include:
*
Peak District in the north of England
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Victoria Peak in Hong Kong
* [
1] - PEAKS software package
