Peak vs Ultimate - What's the difference?
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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.
Final; last in a series.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
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Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
As nouns the difference between peak and ultimate
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 ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things.As a verb peak
is to reach a highest degree or maximum.As an adjective ultimate is
final; last in a series.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
ultimate
English
Adjective
(wikipedia ultimate) (-)- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- an ultimate constituent of matter
