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ALL meanings of climax

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  • countable noun climax The climax of something is the most exciting or important moment in it, usually near the end. 3
  • verb climax The event that climaxes a sequence of events is an exciting or important event that comes at the end. You can also say that a sequence of events climaxes with a particular event. 3
  • variable noun climax A climax is an orgasm. 3
  • verb climax When someone climaxes, they have an orgasm. 3
  • noun climax the most intense or highest point of an experience or of a series of events 3
  • noun climax a decisive moment in a dramatic or other work 3
  • noun climax a rhetorical device by which a series of sentences, clauses, or phrases are arranged in order of increasing intensity 3
  • noun climax the stage in the development of a community during which it remains stable under the prevailing environmental conditions 3
  • verb climax to reach or bring to a climax 3
  • noun climax a rhetorical series of ideas, images, etc. arranged progressively so that the most forceful is last 3
  • noun climax the final, culminating element or event in a series; highest point, as of interest or excitement 3
  • noun climax the decisive turning point of the action, as in a drama 3
  • noun climax an orgasm 3
  • noun climax a final, self-perpetuating community of plants and animals that develops in a particular climate, soil, etc.: it will persist as long as the same conditions prevail 3
  • noun climax The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. 1
  • noun climax culminating moment 1
  • noun climax orgasm 1
  • intransitive verb climax reach orgasm 1
  • intransitive verb climax reach top point 1
  • noun climax the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. 1
  • noun climax (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 1
  • noun climax Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity. the last term or member of this figure. 1
  • noun climax an orgasm. 1
  • noun climax Ecology. the stable and self-perpetuating end stage in the ecological succession or evolution of a plant and animal community. 1
  • noun climax (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. 0
  • noun climax (Obsolete (No longer in use)) An instance of such an ascending series. 0
  • noun climax (now commonly) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly. 0
  • verb climax To reach or bring to a climax. 0
  • verb climax To orgasm; to reach orgasm. 0
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