culmination

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a final climactic stage

   their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development

2. 2
   noun

   a concluding action

3. 3
   noun

   the decisive moment in a novel or play

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   An endpoint arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period, usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of something.

7. 7
   noun

   An attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

8. 8
   noun

   A ceremony marking the completion of studies at an elementary school, middle school or junior high school.

Etymology

Borrowed from French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion. Morphologically culminate + -ion.