• Finnish: keulapiikki

• Finnish: kynsi

• ttbc Albanian: majë
• ttbc Catalan: cim
• ttbc Croatian: vrh
• ttbc Italian: culmine (1,2)
• ttbc Portuguese: cume (2)
• ttbc Romanian: vârf and
• ttbc Spanish: cima

Verb

1. To reach a peak or maximum.
   • Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.

Derived terms

• off-peak

Translations

A Peak may refer to:

• A mountain peak
  • More specifically, a pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point
• The highest, or sometimes the highest and lowest (see peak-to-peak), points on a varying waveform
  • Peak electricity usage times (peak demand)
• 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(software) performs de novo peptide sequencing and protein identification on mass spectrometry data
• BIAS Peak – 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
• Peak experiences
• Peak to Peak Charter School
• 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
• Peak Records, a record label

Proper geographical names include:

• Peak District in the north of England
• Pikes Peak in Colorado, United States
• Victoria Peak in Hong Kong

See also

• Peak hour
• Peek

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