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culmination
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion.Morphologically culminate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?lm??ne???n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?l.m?n?e?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
culmination (countable and uncountable, plural culminations)
- (astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
- Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:apex
Related terms
- culminate
Translations
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culminate
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1647, from Medieval Latin culminatus, the past participle of culminare (“to crown”), from Latin culmen (“peak, the highest point”), older form columen (“top, summit”), from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?lm?ne?t/
Verb
culminate (third-person singular simple present culminates, present participle culminating, simple past and past participle culminated)
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- Synonym: peak
- 1875, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology
- The type of Cycads culminated in the Mesozoic
- The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- 2010, "By the skin of her teeth", The Economist, 7 Sep 2010:
- The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading.
- 2010, "By the skin of her teeth", The Economist, 7 Sep 2010:
Related terms
- culm
- culminant
- culmination
- culminating
- culminated
Translations
Adjective
culminate (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Relating to the culmen
Further reading
- culminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- culminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Verb
culminate
- second-person plural present indicative of culminare
- second-person plural imperative of culminare
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