To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
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 a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
The beginning of something.
Ancestry.
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.