CLIMAX
\klˈa͡ɪmaks], \klˈaɪmaks], \k_l_ˈaɪ_m_a_k_s]\
Definitions of CLIMAX
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
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the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
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the most severe stage of a disease
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end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
By Princeton University
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the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
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the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
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the most severe stage of a disease
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
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A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
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The highest point; the greatest degree.
By Oddity Software
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Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
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A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
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The highest point; the greatest degree.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In Rhetoric, the arranging of the particulars of a portion of discourse so as to rise in strength to the last.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Rhet. A progressive increase in force to a culmination; the culmination; acme.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe