culminationn.

/kʌlmɪˈneɪʃən/

Etymology: noun of action < culminate v.; compare French culmination.

1. The attainment by a heavenly body of its greatest altitude; the act of reaching the meridian. lower or upper culmination: the attainment of least or greatest altitude on any day.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [noun] > reach meridian

culmination1633

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point

prickOE

heighta1050

full1340

higha1398

pointc1400

roofa1500

top-castle1548

ruff1549

acmea1568

tip1567

noontide1578

high tide1579

superlative1583

summity1588

spring tide1593

meridian1594

period1595

apogee1600

punctilio1601

high-water mark1602

noon1609

zenith1610

auge1611

apex1624

culmination1633

cumble1640

culmen1646

climax1647

topc1650

cumulus1659

summit1661

perigeum1670

highest1688

consummation1698

stretch1741

high point1787

perihelion1804

summary1831

comble1832

heading up1857

climacteric1870

flashpoint1878

tip-end1885

peak1902

noontime1903

Omega point1981

1633 H. Gellibrand in T. James Strange Voy. App. sig. R3 At the instant of the Moones Culmination or Mediation of Heauen.

1788 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 2 Adjustment..to answer the culmination of any of the heavenly bodies.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 79 The sun's lower culmination, if such a term can be applied to his midnight depression.

2. figurative. The attainment of the highest point, or state of being at the height; concrete that in which anything culminates, the crown or consummation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase

status1577

apex1624

sublimity1637

climax1647

culmination1657

acme1761

boiling-point1773

crescendo1925

1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. xix. 429 We..wonder how that which in its putting forth was a flowre, should in its growth and culmination become a thistle.

1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 296 The uprise and culmination of the new..power of Commerce.

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 253 This fresco may be regarded as the culmination of the movement.

3. The raising of the level of the land on either side of a river by allowing flood-water to deposit silt on it. [Compare Italian colmare verb.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [noun] > culmination

culmination1838

1838 F. Maceroni Memoirs II. 62 The process of culmination is particularly successful if practised high up a river much liable to winter floods.

4. Geology (a) Also culmination of pitch. A part of a fold, esp. a nappe, where the strata were at their highest before they were eroded; (b) an axis of a system of folds joining the highest parts of successive folds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] > axis of fold system

culmination1927

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] > part of fold

culmination1927

1927 L. W. Collet Struct. Alps ii. i. 27 Windows generally originate..on culminations of pitch.

1927 L. W. Collet Struct. Alps ii. i. 27 The windows of the Lower Engadine and of the Tauern are due to culminations of the substratum.

1942 M. P. Billings Struct. Geol. iii. 49 Culminations and depressions trend essentially at right angles to the trend of the folds; the folds plunge away from culminations toward depressions.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xviii. 392 The nappes..are found to undulate up and down in an alternating succession of broad culminations and depressions.

1965 Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) xxx. 1157 (caption) Mt. Blanc (15,782 feet) the highest culmination of the Hercynian massifs.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XIII. 408/1 In the culminations, where the higher strata have been removed by erosion, the structure of the lower strata may be seen in the deep valleys.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	culmination
释义	culminationn. /kʌlmɪˈneɪʃən/ Etymology: noun of action < culminate v.; compare French culmination. 1. The attainment by a heavenly body of its greatest altitude; the act of reaching the meridian. lower or upper culmination: the attainment of least or greatest altitude on any day. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [noun] > reach meridian culmination1633 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point prickOE heighta1050 full1340 higha1398 pointc1400 roofa1500 top-castle1548 ruff1549 acmea1568 tip1567 noontide1578 high tide1579 superlative1583 summity1588 spring tide1593 meridian1594 period1595 apogee1600 punctilio1601 high-water mark1602 noon1609 zenith1610 auge1611 apex1624 culmination1633 cumble1640 culmen1646 climax1647 topc1650 cumulus1659 summit1661 perigeum1670 highest1688 consummation1698 stretch1741 high point1787 perihelion1804 summary1831 comble1832 heading up1857 climacteric1870 flashpoint1878 tip-end1885 peak1902 noontime1903 Omega point1981 1633 H. Gellibrand in T. James Strange Voy. App. sig. R3 At the instant of the Moones Culmination or Mediation of Heauen. 1788 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 2 Adjustment..to answer the culmination of any of the heavenly bodies. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 79 The sun's lower culmination, if such a term can be applied to his midnight depression. 2. figurative. The attainment of the highest point, or state of being at the height; concrete that in which anything culminates, the crown or consummation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase status1577 apex1624 sublimity1637 climax1647 culmination1657 acme1761 boiling-point1773 crescendo1925 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. xix. 429 We..wonder how that which in its putting forth was a flowre, should in its growth and culmination become a thistle. 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 296 The uprise and culmination of the new..power of Commerce. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 253 This fresco may be regarded as the culmination of the movement. 3. The raising of the level of the land on either side of a river by allowing flood-water to deposit silt on it. [Compare Italian colmare verb.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [noun] > culmination culmination1838 1838 F. Maceroni Memoirs II. 62 The process of culmination is particularly successful if practised high up a river much liable to winter floods. 4. Geology (a) Also culmination of pitch. A part of a fold, esp. a nappe, where the strata were at their highest before they were eroded; (b) an axis of a system of folds joining the highest parts of successive folds. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] > axis of fold system culmination1927 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] > part of fold culmination1927 1927 L. W. Collet Struct. Alps ii. i. 27 Windows generally originate..on culminations of pitch. 1927 L. W. Collet Struct. Alps ii. i. 27 The windows of the Lower Engadine and of the Tauern are due to culminations of the substratum. 1942 M. P. Billings Struct. Geol. iii. 49 Culminations and depressions trend essentially at right angles to the trend of the folds; the folds plunge away from culminations toward depressions. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xviii. 392 The nappes..are found to undulate up and down in an alternating succession of broad culminations and depressions. 1965 Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) xxx. 1157 (caption) Mt. Blanc (15,782 feet) the highest culmination of the Hercynian massifs. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XIII. 408/1 In the culminations, where the higher strata have been removed by erosion, the structure of the lower strata may be seen in the deep valleys. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1633
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