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- noun The condition of having a (specified form of)
peak - noun statistics Sometimes used as a synonym for
kurtosis
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Examples
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Also it's really nice to have your peakedness--and pretty books!
Tweets for Today yuki_onna 2009
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The conditions are too technical for brief pres - entation, but, like single-peakedness, they imply cer - tain types of similarity among the preference scales of all individuals.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH J. ARROW 1968
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She takes Scotch snuff from a silver box, and wears a pair of horn spectacles, which give effect to the peculiar peakedness of her nose.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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"Well, the Lord he'p the nigger!" exclaimed Miss Becky, in a tone that seemed to reproduce, by some curious agreement of sight with sound, her general aspect of peakedness.
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