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What is the noun for peak?

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peak
  1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
  2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
  3. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point
  4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated
  5. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail
  6. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
  7. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
  8. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “The business, at its peak, employed thousands of staff.”
      “At dawn, we will begin our climb to the mountain's peak.”
      “Where the White Mountains come to an end is the great peak of Mount Mindolluin.”
peakedness
  1. (chiefly in combination) The condition of having a (specified form of) peak
  2. (statistics) kurtosis (archaic).
  3. Examples:
    1. “For instance, no mountain in the Alps produces a more vigorous impression of peakedness than the Matterhorn.”
peaker
  1. That which reaches or forms a peak. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
peaking
  1. The act of something reaching a peak.
peaklet
  1. A small peak.
peakednesses
  1. plural of peakedness
peaklets
  1. plural of peaklet
peakings
  1. plural of peaking
peakers
  1. plural of peaker
peaks
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