кульминация — meaning in English
kulminatsiya
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English meaning
- Acme noun The highest point of achievement or development; the peak.
- climax noun The most intense, exciting, or important point in a story, event, or series of events.
- culmination noun The final, highest point reached after a series of events or efforts.
- superlative noun The form of an adjective or adverb that expresses the highest degree, such as biggest, best or most carefully.
Senses
кульминация is used for these senses in English:
- acme A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period. [c. 1610]
- climax (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
- culmination (astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
- high tide (figuratively) A climax, culminating point or phase.
- superlative (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).
climax — full definition
- noun The most intense, exciting, or important point in a story, event, or series of events.
- noun The peak of sexual excitement; an orgasm.
- verb To reach or form the most intense or important point.