Climax

climax
    n 1: the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or
         developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's
         career"; "in the flood tide of his success" [syn: {climax},
         {flood tide}]
    2: the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene
       is the climax of the play" [syn: {climax}, {culmination}]
    3: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
       [syn: {orgasm}, {climax}, {sexual climax}, {coming}]
    4: the most severe stage of a disease
    5: arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
    v 1: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The
         meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" [syn: {culminate},
         {climax}]
    

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.
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   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.
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            "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience,
            and experience hope" -- a happy climax. --J. D.
                                                  Forbes.
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   3. The highest point; the greatest degree.
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            We must look higher for the climax of earthly good.
                                                  --I. Taylor.
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   {To cap the climax}, to surpass everything, as in excellence
      or in absurdity. [Colloq.]
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Climax, CO
  Zip code(s): 80429
Climax, GA (city, FIPS 16908)
  Location: 30.87562 N, 84.43125 W
  Population (1990): 226 (103 housing units)
  Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 31734
Climax, KS (city, FIPS 14275)
  Location: 37.71928 N, 96.22356 W
  Population (1990): 57 (34 housing units)
  Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 67137
Climax, KY
  Zip code(s): 40456
Climax, MI (village, FIPS 16440)
  Location: 42.23945 N, 85.33703 W
  Population (1990): 677 (229 housing units)
  Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 49034
Climax, MN (city, FIPS 11962)
  Location: 47.60679 N, 96.81227 W
  Population (1990): 264 (120 housing units)
  Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Climax, NC
  Zip code(s): 27233
Climax, NY
  Zip code(s): 12042
    

Climax, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
   Population (2000):    297
   Housing Units (2000): 134
   Land area (2000):     0.790467 sq. miles (2.047300 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.790467 sq. miles (2.047300 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            16908
   Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
   Location:             30.877194 N, 84.431975 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     31734
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Climax, GA
    Climax
    

Climax, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
   Population (2000):    64
   Housing Units (2000): 29
   Land area (2000):     0.125651 sq. miles (0.325434 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.125651 sq. miles (0.325434 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            14275
   Located within:       Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
   Location:             37.720155 N, 96.223888 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     67137
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Climax, KS
    Climax
    

Climax, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
   Population (2000):    791
   Housing Units (2000): 291
   Land area (2000):     1.027410 sq. miles (2.660980 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.027410 sq. miles (2.660980 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            16440
   Located within:       Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
   Location:             42.237493 N, 85.336970 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     49034
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Climax, MI
    Climax
    

Climax, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
   Population (2000):    243
   Housing Units (2000): 124
   Land area (2000):     1.145192 sq. miles (2.966034 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.145192 sq. miles (2.966034 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            11962
   Located within:       Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
   Location:             47.608772 N, 96.815453 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Climax, MN
    Climax
    

219 Moby Thesaurus words for "climax":
      achieve satisfaction, acme, acme of perfection, act of love,
      adultery, all, apex, aphrodisia, apogee, apoplexy, ass, balling,
      bench mark, bitter end, breakup, brow, button up, cap, capstone,
      cardinal point, carnal knowledge, carry to completion, cataclysm,
      catastrophe, ceiling, chief thing, clean up, close out, close up,
      cloud nine, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus,
      come, commerce, complete, completion, conclude, conclusion,
      congress, connection, consummate, consummation, content,
      convulsion, copestone, copula, copulation, core, cornerstone,
      coupling, crest, crisis, critical point, crossroads, crown, crux,
      culmen, culminate, culmination, denouement, diastrophism, diddling,
      disaster, edge, ejaculate, end, end result, essence, essential,
      essential matter, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, final result,
      final stroke, final touch, finale, finalize, finish, finish off,
      finish up, finisher, finishing stroke, fit, fornication, frost,
      fundamental, get done, get it over, get off, get through,
      get through with, gist, gravamen, great point, head, heart, heaven,
      heavens, height, high noon, high point, highest degree,
      highest pitch, highest point, ice, important thing, intercourse,
      intimacy, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, last act, last stroke,
      last touch, last word, limit, lovemaking, main point, main thing,
      making it with, marital relations, marriage act, material point,
      mating, maximum, meat, meridian, milestone, mop up, mountaintop,
      ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, nth degree, nub, onanism,
      orgasm, outtop, overarch, overthrow, overtop, ovum, pareunia,
      paroxysm, payoff, peak, perfect, perfection, pink,
      pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, pith, pivot, please, point,
      pole, procreation, quake, reach orgasm, real issue, relations,
      ridge, round out, salient point, satisfy, screwing, seventh heaven,
      sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress,
      sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sine qua non,
      sky, sleeping with, spasm, sperm, spire, stroke, substance,
      substantive point, summit, surmount, temblor, terminate,
      termination, the bottom line, the point, the whole, tidal wave,
      tip, tip-top, top, top off, top out, tsunami, turning point,
      ultimate, upheaval, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost,
      utmost extent, uttermost, venery, vertex, very top, wind up,
      wrap up, zenith