Culmination

[cul·mi·nate]

The culmination is the end point or final stage of something you've been working toward or something that's been building up. The culmination of your high school career, for example, should be graduation day and probably not prom night.

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The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

Noun
a concluding action

Noun
the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"

Noun
(astronomy) a heavenly body''s highest celestial point above an observer''s horizon

Noun
a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development"


n.
The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

n.
Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.


Culmination

Cul"mi*na"tion (k?l`m?-n?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F.culmination] 1. The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit. 2. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Usage Examples

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

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Other Usage Examples

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

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