Crossword clues for culmination
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Culmination \Cul"mi*na"tion\ (k[u^]l`m?-n?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F.culmination]
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from French culmination, noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin culminare (see culminate). Originally a term in astronomy/astrology; figurative use is from 1650s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context astronomy English) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit. 2 Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
WordNet
n. a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development" [syn: apogee]
(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon
the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" [syn: climax]
a concluding action [syn: completion, closing, windup, mop up]
Wikipedia
In astronomy, the culmination of a planet, star or constellation is its transit over an observer's meridian.
During a sidereal day, an astronomical object crosses the meridian twice: once at its upper culmination, when it is (approximately) at its highest point as seen from the earth, and once at its lower culmination, its (approximately) lowest point. Often, culmination is used to mean upper culmination.
The altitude of an object in degrees at its upper culmination is equal to (90 − L + D), where L is the observer's latitude and D is the object's declination.
Usage examples of "culmination".
Roe was the entirely predictable culmination of a long process of articulating and expanding the rights of privacy and reproductive freedom.
To desire to live everlastingly as an identical individual, it has been said, is the ecstasy and culmination of avaricious conceitedness.
The plan of God for the salvation of men, as its culmination is seen in Christ, is the exhibition of the true type of being, the true style of motive and action, for their assimilation and reproduction: but Calvinism, when fundamentally analyzed, reduces it to a monarchical manifesto and spectacular drama working its effects through verbal terms, acts of mental assent and gesticular deeds.
In Laurie Ty has reached his culmination, his most powerful incarnation of all.
Dave, but if you must know, it was the culmination of a lotter things.
Knew that what he saw in her stark profile now was the culmination of Joe Spencer, Valley Regester, Julia Harris.
Yet the truth is that they were the culmination and reification of European history in the 19th century.
He finds it hard to imagine her reaching a final depth, that warm-blooded slumbrous culmination, the point where sleep becomes the tidal life of the unconscious, a state beyond dreaming.
It is apparent how modern reflection, as soon as the first shoot of this analytic appears, by-passes the display of representation, together with its culmination in the form of a table as ordered by Classical knowledge, and moves towards a certain thought of the Same - in which Difference is the same thing as Identity.
The experiment in protoplast augmentation that she had begun three seasons back under the guidance of the government agricultural agent was reaching its culmination now.
To Rudy, this seance was the culmination of a long, dangerous adventure wherein he had gone far out of character to aid the schemes of Sheff Hassell.
It was written as a repertory piece to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and was the culmination of a three-year collaboration with the American composer Carl Davis, who had made three previous albums with the RLPO.
Smith landed in Montreal at a time when nationalist stirrings had reached their culmination in the Papineau rebellion, and his vessel passed the steamer Canada, carrying the last of the Patriotes of the 1837 uprising to Bermudan exile.
So they sat together for long minutes, her hips moving gently, as his very soul seemed to merge with hers, slowly rising to the most powerful culmination of his experience.
The culmination of all this was the battle of Cumorah, fought many centuries ago near the present site of Palmyra, between the Lamanites and the Nephites--the former being the heathen and the latter the Christians of this continent.