climax vs event

climax

noun
  • The final term of a rhetorical climax. 

  • A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. 

  • The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm. 

  • A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series 

  • The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point. 

  • The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment. 

verb
  • To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense). 

event

noun
  • An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). 

  • In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway. 

  • A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. 

  • A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task. 

  • One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. 

  • An occurrence; something that happens. 

  • A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. 

  • An episode of severe health conditions. 

  • A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) 

How often have the words climax and event occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )