Crossword clues for peaking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Peaking.]
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To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
There peaketh up a mighty high mount.
--Holand. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. ``Dwindle, peak, and pine.''
--Shak.-
[Cf. Peek.] To pry; to peep slyly.
--Shak.Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.
Peaking \Peak"ing\, a.
Mean; sneaking. [Vulgar]
Pining; sickly; peakish. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. The act of something reaching a peak. vb. (present participle of peak English)
Wikipedia
Peaking may refer to:
- Peaking, in improperly installed laminate flooring
- Antenna peaking, orienting a directional antenna toward the greatest radio signal amplitude
- Focus peaking, a feature in digital viewfinders that detects and highlights in-focus contours
- Peaking power plant, or peaker, a power plant that runs only when there is a high demand for electricity
- Peaking tone, or rising-falling tone, in tonal languages
Usage examples of "peaking".
Indeed the roar increased steadily, soon peaking in a cacophony of feminine screams.
With its green summit peaking above 87,000 feet, Olympus Mons is almost three times the height of Mount Everest on Earth.
At night hidden speakers used hypnagogic indoctrination techniques, peaking around three A.
The sublight jaunt, peaking at around half the speed of light, lasted only a fraction of a second, but Pirius glimpsed blueshift staining the crowded stars above him.
There was one little overdue 2nd, a twelve-year-old, who was adding zig-zag ad libs to the dull discussion and peaking every zig with a spoken word.
Beside it is a bar chart, the bars peaking and then becoming shorter.
Frequency is hard gamma, peaking at one point two mega-electron volts.
It was clear from the upward peaking of his Metabolism Pulse Modulator that Arcturus was rapidly recovering.
His enthusiasm peaking, he finished reactivating Enterprise's fuel cells, then moved back to the left-side commander's seat.
Then the blue world suddenly blossomed and filled the screens entirely, its curved limb a white line, the blue water all patterned by white cloud swirls, the continents peaking out from cloud patterns like little rebuses of half-remembered myth: Asia.
Apart from his memory and a couple of clippings, it would be all that remained of a spent career that had blossomed and then peaked in the big leagues far too long after the best years were gone, but which brought with the peaking the promise that some belated and overdue glory was possible, that somewhere there was a hosannah to be cried in the name of Francis Phelan, one of the best sonsabitches ever to kick a toe into third base.
The 2200 hour density reports from Cinncy had been given before the Ohio State-Cal football game traffic had hit the thruways and densities now were peaking near twenty thousand vehicles for the one-hundred-mile block of westbound NAT 26 out of Cincinnati.
The wind blew with a faint, warm breeze and the sea moved about kindly, the water peaking and troughing like people dancing in a circle who come together and raise their hands and move apart and come together again, over and over.