Collocations withpeak
These are words often used in combination withpeak.
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all-time peak
The demographic post-war baby boom working its way up the age range to reach its all-time peak of nearly a million school-leavers in 1962 did not affect this situation.
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central peak
This tends to create landscapes with a single, central peak.
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diffraction peak
Although the experimental result has essentially shown the flattop profile, a nonnegligible level of the zeroth order diffraction peak has been found in the focused beam profile.
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high peak
The lung was inflated to higher mean volumes without having to use high peak airway pressures to maintain ventilation (oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal).
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isolated peak
He then demonstrated, with linear analysis, how a nonlinear reaction diffusion system could possibly generate such isolated peaks.
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peak current
At present, the influence of factors such as the peak current, peak voltage, and the pulse duration are not well understood.
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peak efficiency
It now takes two years to train him, and an estimated further four before he reaches peak efficiency.
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peak flow
Second, uniform guidelines for economic evaluations of asthmatics are needed to compare cost-effectiveness evaluations of self-management based on peak flow monitoring interventions.
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peak hour
They would enable the present peak hour carrying capacity to be increased from about 15,000 to 26,000 each way.
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peak of popularity
It is only since the decline of the game, which reached its peak of popularity in 1974, that the sense of unjustified discrimination has become apparent and painful to anyone.
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peak performance
That, it is claimed, is almost 80% of the theoretical peak performance.
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peak period
Their peak period of popularity, from 1996-2000, coincided with my coming out.
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peak position
Delay time is shown as the peak position of each profile in the stick diagram.
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peak power
The required peak power from the accelerator was reduced by a factor of 2-5 from the close-coupled target for the examples we examined.
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peak sensitivity
Perhaps the peak sensitivity of my long-wave cones is slightly displaced from that of yours.
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peak usage
There is a considerable difference between peak usage and trough usage within a 24-hour cycle.
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peak velocity
Since the onset of motion was significantly delayed on this test and the time window narrow, the peak velocity may not have been achieved.
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peak voltage
At present, the influence of factors such as the peak current, peak voltage, and the pulse duration are not well understood.
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rocky peak
It is also a pilgrimage place and a suggestive rocky peak surrounded by green forests.
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seasonal peak
A delay in the seasonal peak could not be demonstrated clearly for older cases.
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sharp peak
It is unclear, however, why the conditioned profile still shows a sharp peak in the centre.
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spectral peak
Spectral breaking is the transformation or breaking of a single dominant spectral peak associated with an incident pulse into two spectral peaks.
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twin peaks
Erosion has stripped away the sandstone leaving the mountain's twin peaks.
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volcanic peak
The 1980 eruption was comparatively of smaller magnitude emanating from a vent on the southern side about 60m ft below the volcanic peak.
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