The growing point of a shoot.
The top of the food chain.
The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
A conical priest cap.
The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
The deepest part of a tooth's root.
A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
The lowest part of the human heart.
The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".
The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
The final term of a rhetorical climax.
The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).