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culmination
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[ noun ] a final climactic stage
Synonyms Examples "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)While many tokens point forward , the main achievements stand as a culmination of the simple patterns of the Dark_ages . In these respects the vases of the early eighth century represent a culmination of earlier lines of progress . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)And it is thought by many who think_about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet , progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso , and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De_Kooning . |
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[ noun ] (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon
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[ noun ] a concluding action
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