sharp peak
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsharpandpeak
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sharp
adjective
uk/ʃɑːp/us/ʃɑːrp/
having a thin edge or point that can cut something or make a hole ...
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peak
noun[C]
uk/piːk/us/piːk/
the highest, strongest, or best point, value, or level ...
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(Definition ofsharpandpeakfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is unclear, however, why the conditioned profile still shows asharppeakin the centre.
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We can see movement levels steadily increase until 23.15, when there is asharppeak.
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Another important difference between preferred-motion and other-stimuli correlations was the tendency of the former to have asharppeaknear zero ms, that is synchronous.
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It is clear from this plot that at quenching the thermicity fails to develop asharppeakand the maximum greatly decreases.
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The current density profile has asharppeakat the center where reconnection occurs.
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The current density profile along the inflow direction consists of two parts: one is asharppeakand the other is a low shoulder.
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Very near the trailing edge of the splitter plate, the velocity spectrum had asharppeakwhich was the most amplified frequency.
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In particular, asharppeakin infections occurred in the middle of the suppression trial, coinciding with (but not completely explained by) tsetse population recovery.
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There is asharppeakat the origin which corresponds to the fastest growing interleaving mode.
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The second condition depends also on the amplitude of the laser pulse, therefore, for high enough amplitudes, thesharppeakof the density can appear in the low-density electron beams.
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Experimental observations by the author have shown that when the limiting height of is approached, the wave crest breaks unsymmetrically with a round crest instead of asharppeak.
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I accept that there was asharppeak, from which the price came down.
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The highest of these rises to asharppeakand is visible for a great distance.
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Approaching phase angle 0 (fully illuminated phase) the curve rises to asharppeak.
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Viewed from the north, it presents asharppeakwith smooth, clear-cut sides.
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The mercury film forms an amalgam with the analyte of interest, which upon oxidation results in asharppeak, improving resolution between analytes.
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The absorbance maximum is asharppeak650670 nm, so concentrated phytochrome solutions look turquoise-blue to the human eye.
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Asharppeak, rising to a height of 95 m, stands about three km west of this point.
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