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.
To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
A sequence of things in order.
In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
An act of following in sequence.
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
A right to take possession.
A race or series of descendants.
A passing of royal powers.
Rotation, as of crops.