What is the difference between peak and nadir?
peak | nadir |
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
(geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
(nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
(nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
(nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
(mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
* Holland
To become sick or wan.
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
* Shakespeare
To pry; to peep slyly.
The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
* 1638 , Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique :
(figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
* (rfdate) :
* 1950 , Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book :
(astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
(beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
Nadir is a antonym of peak.
As nouns the difference between peak and nadir
is that peak is a point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap while nadir is the point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.As verbs the difference between peak and nadir
is that peak is to reach a highest degree or maximum while nadir is to extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.As a proper noun Nadir is
a male given name.peak
English
(wikipedia peak)Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
- By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.
Synonyms
* apex, pinnacle, top, summit * See alsoDerived terms
* peakless * peaklike * peakwiseVerb
(en verb)- Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
- There peaketh up a mighty high mount.
Synonyms
* culminateDerived terms
* off-peakEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- Dwindle, peak , and pine.
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Etymology 3
nadir
English
Noun
(en noun)- The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe.
- In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
- The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.