climax.
A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
Meaning & usage
A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
An instance of such an ascending series.
The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series The final term of a rhetorical climax.
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series A relatively stable community of organisms, resulting from ecological succession, a successful adaptation to a relatively stable environment.
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
Where this word comes from
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).
To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
Where this word comes from
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).
Being a climax species or climax community of organisms; able to remain essentially unchanged (in terms of the portion of the species in its area it constitutes) as long as its site remains unchanged.
Where this word comes from
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).
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