culmination
Americannoun
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the act or fact of culminating.
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that in which anything culminates; the culminating position or stage; highest point; acme.
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Astronomy. the position of a celestial body when it is on the meridian.
noun
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the final, highest, or decisive point
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the act of culminating
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astronomy the highest or lowest altitude attained by a heavenly body as it crosses the meridian
Other Word Forms
- nonculmination noun
Etymology
Origin of culmination
1625–35; < Medieval Latin culminātiōn-, stem of culminātiō; culminate, -ion
Example Sentences
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It was the culmination of a series of feints and bluffs in the preceding hours and days as the former reality TV star kept the world guessing.
From Barron's
The work, presented at the Eurographics Conference on Visualization, represents the culmination of a broader color perception project that also produced a landmark 2022 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
From Science Daily
His latest album "African West Station" is a remarkable work of "musical pan-Africanism", the culmination of four years of research into the archives of post-independence west African music from the 1960s to '80s.
From Barron's
It will be the culmination of 11 days of competition which have included controversy, drama and intrigue... as well as the odd bout of boredom.
From BBC
The split is the culmination of a review the Atlanta-based company has been undergoing with financial advisers.
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