peaked
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- adjective
- /piːkt/
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pico
- Each of these folds is peaked like a mountain, and we call these mountain folds.
Examples
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This is a highly peaked distribution function.
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This is why the colour looks more sharply peaked near yellow.
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Let us say it is peaked here if you wait a little bit.
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And look how peaked in the summer it is.
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His peaked cap was pushed back on his head, and he had loosened his collar and tie.
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The eigenvectors of X are the wave functions, which are highly peaked, very, very narrow Dirac delta functions.
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As the NS get large, it becomes a rather sharply peaked function so that it doesn't fluctuate very much.
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And because the breastplate is going to be slightly peaked at the front, so it's not a conformed shape all the way through, It's slightly peaks here.
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Norse influence manifested in the form of the Yeoman Boo style designs, while step influence manifested in the form of the high peaked nasal helm styles.
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The roof of the house was sharply peaked, resembling the shape of a mountain.
Synonyms
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A thing with a sharp tip
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Ending in a small sharp tip
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Something that has high pointed tops like small towers
A shape that narrows to a sharp point at the end
With a small sharp tip like a stiff hair
Shaped like a pointed tip that becomes narrow at one end
Having a tall pointed top like a church roof
Compounds
- UK
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A hat with a flat round top and a stiff front that sticks out, worn by police or army
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Morphology
Etymology
Peaked comes from the word peak, which means 'top' or 'point' just like a 'mountain peak', so a peaked roof or hat is one that rises to a sharp point.