Definitions

1. 1.climax (the culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment)
2. 2.climax (the culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point)
3. 3.climacterium
4. 4.climax, orgasm
5. 5.climax, incrementum (a rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order)
6. 6.gradation, comparison (a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe)