Usually means: Highest point or maximum level.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. peak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peak: Merriam-Webster
  3. peak, peak, peak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peak, peak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peak: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peak: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peak, peak: Wordnik
  8. peak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Peak: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Peak, peak: Wiktionary
  11. peak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. peak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. peak: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. peak: Dictionary.com
  15. peak: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. peak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. PEAK (automotive products), Peak (automotive products), Peak (company), Peak (constituency), Peak (geometry), Peak (novel), Peak (pharmacology), Peak, The Peak (Singapore Drama), The Peak (TV series), The Peak (newspaper), The peak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Peak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. peak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. peak: Rhymezone
  21. peak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. peak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. peak: FreeDictionary.org
  24. peak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. peak: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
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  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. PEAK: Accounting Glossary
  4. Peak: bizterms.net
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Peak: Investopedia
  7. Peak (disambiguation), peak: Legal dictionary
  8. Peak (disambiguation), Peak: Financial dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  11. Peak: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Peak (disambiguation), peak: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. peak: Sound Alike Words
  2. Peak (disambiguation), peak: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PEAK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. peak, peak, peak, peak, peak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. peak, the peak: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Peak: Body Building
  2. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)
  3. Peak: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. peak: Electronics
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  5. Peak, Peak: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
noun:  The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
noun:  (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
noun:  (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
noun:  (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
noun:  (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
noun:  (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
noun:  (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
noun:  (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
verb:  (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To reach a highest degree or maximum.
verb:  To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
adjective:  At the greatest extent; maximum.
adjective:  (slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
adjective:  (MLE) Bad.
adjective:  (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate.
adjective:  (Internet slang) Very good or high-quality.
verb:  (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
verb:  (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
verb:  (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans. [(gender-critical slang) To cause one to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views.]
noun:  Alternative form of peag (“wampum”). [Wampum.]
verb:  Misspelling of pique. [(transitive)]

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