climax

Meanings

1. A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
2. An instance of such an ascending series.
3. The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
4. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly
5. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
6. The final term of a rhetorical climax.
7. The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
8. The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.

1. To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
2. To form the climax to; to be the climax of.

1. A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. An unincorporated community and mining location in Lake County, Colorado.
4. A small town in Decatur County, Georgia.
5. A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
6. An unincorporated community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
7. A village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
8. A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
9. A hamlet in Greene County, New York.
10. An unincorporated community in Guilford County and Randolph County, North Carolina.
11. An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
12. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon.

Etymology

From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).