Is a 'spike' always up?

[Northerner]

That's how I've always thought of it, but I just read about someone's low blood sugar spike i.e. hypo. Could just be a journalist's way of expressing things, I suppose. To me a hypo is always a drop or a dip, or just a hypo or a low blood sugar (!), never a 'spike'

 

[trophywench]

I dunno, we could ask Vlad the Impaler if his were always skyward I suppose?

I'd call a down ward spike 'a plummet' meself, unless I called it a$T%$?$ *

* (Self moderated to avoid forum ban)

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

+1 for spikes being upward only. A downward spike just doesn't seem right at all!

 

[Redkite]

Yes, a spike is up, and a dip is down. Like a waveform 🙂

 

[AlisonM]

Stalactites and Stalagmites have always confused me, but never dips and spikes.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Stalactites and Stalagmites have always confused me, but never dips and spikes.

Stalac = 'c' = Ceiling

Stalagm = 'm' = Mountain

🙂

 

[Northerner]

Mites go up, tites go down! As my chemistry teacher taught us!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Mites go up, tites go down! As my chemistry teacher taught us!

Did we have the same teacher lol?

 

[Northerner]

Did we have the same teacher lol?

Not unless you went to an all boys school 😉

 

[jalapino]

Up is up down....and down is down?.... surely it is as simple as that? 🙂

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Not unless you went to an all boys school 😉

No such luck

 

[yorksman]

When it refers to a change in state, a spike is a sharp increase in the magnitude or concentration of something.

Mites go up, tites go down! As my chemistry teacher taught us!

For us, this was the difference between stalagmites and stalactites, with the g for ground and c for ceiling. I have often wondered how many kids broke off souvernirs during school geography trips to Stump Cross Caverns.

 

[Northerner]

When it refers to a change in state, a spike is a sharp increase in the magnitude or concentration of something

For us, this was the difference between stalagmites and stalactites, with the g for ground and c for ceiling. I have often wondered how many kids broke off souvernirs during school geography trips to Stump Cross Caverns.

Sounds like me and you for starters, yorksman! 😱 😉