A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
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.
The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
The lowest limit.
The smallest amount.
He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.
A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
To the lowest degree.