cli⋅max
[klahy-maks]
| 1. | the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. |
| 2. | (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. |
| 3. | Rhetoric.
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| 4. | an orgasm. |
| 5. | Ecology. the stable and self-perpetuating end stage in the ecological succession or evolution of a plant and animal community. |
| 6. | to bring to or reach a climax. |
1580–90; < LL < Gk klîmax ladder, akin to kl
nein to lean
1. summit, zenith, acme, apex.
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cli·max (klī'māks') n.
To bring to or reach a climax. [Latin clīmax, rhetorical climax, from Greek klīmax, ladder; see klei- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Climax
Cli"max\, n. [L., from Gr. ? ladder, staircase, fr. ? to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder, Lean, v. i.]1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. --Glanvill. 2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. --J. D. Forbes. 3. The highest point; the greatest degree. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. --I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]Cite This Source
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Climax
Following a protracted period of selling or buying, a point wherein market trends are retarded or discontinued.
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At a selling climax, the market is characterized by a trend reversal whereby the market begins to buy stocks and prices rise. For a buying climax, the opposite occurs, and the market begins to sell, resulting in lower prices. The climax is merely the highest point of selling or buying and can be followed by many trend reversals.
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Main Entry: cli·max
Pronunciation: 'klI-"maks
Function: noun
1 : the highest or most intense point
2 :
3 : MENOPAUSE
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climax cli·max (klī'māks')
n.
- The height of a disease; the stage of greatest severity.
- See orgasm.
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climax
in ecology, the final stage of biotic succession attainable by a plant community in an area under the environmental conditions present at a particular time. For example, cleared forests in the eastern United States progress from fields, to old fields (with colonizing trees and shrubs), to forests of these early colonists, and finally to climax communities of longer-lived tree species. The species composition of the climax community remains the same because all the species present successfully reproduce themselves and invading species fail to gain a foothold. Because climatic changes, ecological processes, and evolutionary processes cause changes in the environment over very long periods of time, the climax stage is not completely permanent
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