climax
- Noun. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination.
- Noun. The turning point in a plot or in dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.
- Noun. A stage of ecological development in which a community of organisms, is stable and capable of perpetuating itself.
- Noun. (slang) An orgasm.
- Noun. (sense, rhetoric) Ordering of terms in increasing order of importance or magnitude.
- Noun. (sense, rhetoric) Anadiplosis.
- Verb. To reach or bring to a climax.
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