Culmination

Word CULMINATION
Character 11
Hyphenation cul mi na tion
Pronunciations /ˌkʌl.mɪnˈeɪ.ʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Culmination"

What do we mean by 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.

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The word "culmination" in example sentences

This was truer than Judis realized, for he seemed not quite to grasp that a culmination is the reaching of the highest point. ❋ James Taranto (2010)

The iPad, which they called the culmination of an approach that he has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career. ❋ The Huffington Post (2010)

"Embassytown" might be called the culmination of these interests: For his eighth novel he has created a new city on a new world in a new universe, one underpinned by the immer, a "big and tidal quiddity" where normal rules of space and time do not apply and which ships cross to travel between planets. ❋ Lucy Dallas (2011)

The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday. ❋ Dan Zak (2010)

Although these physical attributes are shared by other Oriental and also by the Latin races, they reach a climax in the Jewish type, which in its culmination is unsympathetic to the Anglo-Saxon, the Oriental, or the Latin people. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Its culmination is expressed in the proverb: "A woman should leave her home but three times, – when she is christened, when she is married, and when she is buried." ❋ Unknown (1898)

In a show of how much IBM has bought into the cloud, the company has announced something that it calls the culmination of more than 10 years of software management best practices. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The culmination will be a live performance Saturday by the rapper Fabolous. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was described as the culmination of a five-month police sting where they planted a baby-faced looking undercover cop to purchase drugs from the students. ❋ Anthony Papa (2010)

The culmination was a six-week probationary period running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, in which he was to showcase what he had learned. ❋ Robert Dugoni (2010)

A culmination was the $4.1 billion purchase of Skype in 2005 (including all payouts), in which she took an auction and e-commerce site into the phone business. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The program consists of several breakfast and evening forums, but the culmination is the annual spring luncheon, which this year raised $1 million for research. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For Ellen the culmination was a retrospective of her work at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1998. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was sloppy in its inception and its attempted culmination, which is not how Al Qaeda does its business. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The culmination is a "call in" when the case is presented to the would-be suspect in front of law enforcement, community leaders, ex-offenders and friends and family. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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