<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president.</li><li>Synonyms: apex, acme, zenith, summit</li><li>(in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.</li><li>Rhetoric: a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.</li><li>the last term or member of this figure.</li><li>an orgasm.</li><li>Ecology: the stable and self-perpetuating end stage in the ecological succession or evolution of a plant and animal community.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with or without object) to bring to or reach a climax.</li></ul>