Peaking may refer to:
* Peaking, in improperly installed
laminate flooring
Laminate flooring (also called floating wood tile in the United States) is a multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together with a lamination process. Laminate flooring simulates wood (or sometimes stone) with a photographic appliqué la ...
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Antenna peaking, orienting a directional antenna toward the greatest radio signal amplitude
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Focus peaking
Focus peaking is a focusing aid in live preview or electronic viewfinder
An electronic viewfinder (EVF) is a camera viewfinder where the image captured by the lens is displayed on a small screen (usually LCD or OLED) which the photographer c ...
, a feature in digital viewfinders that detects and highlights in-focus contours
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Peaking power plant
Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. Because they supply power only occasionally, the powe ...
, or peaker, a power plant that runs only when there is a high demand for electricity
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Peaking tone
A tone contour or contour tone is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word. Tone contours are especially common in East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Nilo-Saharan languages, Kh ...
, or ''rising-falling tone'', in tonal languages
See also
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Peak (disambiguation) Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
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Peking (disambiguation)
Peking is an alternate and mostly obsolete romanization of Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China.
Peking may also refer to:
* ''Peking'' (ship), a 1911 German square-rigged sailing ship launched
* 2045 Peking, an asteroid ...
, old Western name of Beijing, and its namesakes
* Peaking, like Dave Yampolsky at the 2024 Adelphian Cup with the "Putt Heard Around the World."
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