climax

n.

1. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination. See synonyms at summit.
2. 1. A series of statements or ideas in an ascending order of rhetorical force or intensity.
   2. The final statement in such a series.
3. 1. A moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially the conclusion of a crisis.
   2. The turning point in a plot or dramatic action.
4. See orgasm (sense 1).
5. A stage in ecological development in which a community of organisms, especially plants, is stable and capable of perpetuating itself. Also called climax community.

tr. & intr.v., -maxed, -max·ing, -max·es.
To bring to or reach a climax.

[Latin clīmax, rhetorical climax, from Greek klīmax, ladder.]

Following a protracted period of selling or buying, a point wherein market trends are retarded or discontinued.

Investopedia Says:
At a selling climax, the market is characterized by a trend reversal whereby the market begins to buy stocks and prices rise. For a buying climax, the opposite occurs, and the market begins to sell, resulting in lower prices. The climax is merely the highest point of selling or buying and can be followed by many trend reversals.

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noun

The highest point or state: acme, apex, apogee, crest, crown, culmination, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, top, zenith. Informal payoff. Medicine fastigium. See high/low.

verb

To reach or bring to a climax: cap, crest, crown, culminate, peak, top (off or out). See excite/bore/interest.

n

Definition: peak, culmination
Antonyms: anticlimax, cliffhanger

v

Definition: come to top; culminate
Antonyms: delve, dip, drop, fall off

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climax, any moment of great intensity in a literary work, especially in drama (see also anagnorisis, catastrophe, crisis, dénouement, peripeteia). Also in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which a sequence of terms is linked by chain‐like repetition through three or more clauses in ascending order of importance. A well‐known example is Benjamin Franklin's cautionary maxim, ‘For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost.’ This figure uses a repetitive structure similar to that of anadiplosis.

Adjective: climactic.

See also auxesis, scène à faire.

The period of greatest intensity, as in the course of a disease.

Rhetorically, a series of words, phrases, or sentences arranged in a continuously ascending order of intensity. If the ascending order is not maintained, an anticlimax or bathos results.

The final natural stage of vegetation on a particular site. In the Northeast, for example, the climax vegetation would be a forest. In the Midwest, it might be a prairie. By definition, no garden could be a climax landscape because humans have added and subtracted plants and managed their growth.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - klimaks, orgasme, ligevægt
v. tr. - bringe til et klimaks
v. intr. - nå et klimaks

Nederlands (Dutch)
climax, orgasme, tot een hoogtepunt brengen, een hoogtepunt bereiken

Français (French)
n. - apogée, paroxysme, gradation (rhétorique), orgasme
v. tr. - amener/porter à son point culminant
v. intr. - atteindre le point culminant, jouir

Deutsch (German)
n. - Höhepunkt, Klimax
v. - einen Höhepunkt erreichen, auf einen Höhepunkt bringen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ανιούσα) κλιμάκωση, αποκορύφωμα, αποκορύφωση, (σεξουαλικός) οργασμός
v. - αποκορυφώνω/-ομαι, έρχομαι σε οργασμό

Italiano (Italian)
climax, apice, orgasmo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - clímax (m), ápice (m)
v. - culminar

Русский (Russian)
кульминация, климакс, испытать оргазм

Español (Spanish)
n. - clímax, punto culminante
v. tr. - alcanzar el clímax
v. intr. - alcanzar el clímax

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - klimax
v. - stegra, bringa till en höjdpunkt, stegras, kulminera

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
高潮, 层进法, 极点, 使达到顶点, 达到顶点

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 高潮, 層進法, 極點
v. tr. - 使達到頂點
v. intr. - 達到頂點

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 절정 , 점층법 , 오르가슴
v. tr. - 클라이막스에 달하게 하다
v. intr. - 클라이막스에 달하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 最高潮, 絶頂, 漸層法
v. - 最高潮に達する, 最高潮に到達させる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ذروة, قمه (فعل) يصل الى الذروة, نهايه أتصال جنسي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פסגה, שיא‬
v. tr. - ‮הגיע לפיסגה‬
v. intr. - ‮הגיע לפיסגה‬

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