Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being at or crossing the meridian; being at its highest elevation, as a planet.
  • Being at its highest point, as of rank, power, magnitude, numbers, or quality.

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  • verb Present participle of culminate.

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Examples

  • Vice President Itamar Franco took his place and governed for the remainder of Collor's term culminating in the October 3, 1994 presidential elections, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected President with 54% of the vote.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Vice President Itamar Franco took his place and governed for the remainder of Collor's term culminating in the October 3, 1994 presidential elections, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected President with 54% of the vote.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Vice President Itamar Franco took his place and governed for the remainder of Collor's term culminating in the October 3, 1994 presidential elections, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected President with 54\% of the vote.

    unknown title 2009

  • Vice President Itamar Franco took his place and governed for the remainder of Collor's term culminating in the October 3, 1994 presidential elections, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected President with 54\% of the vote.

    unknown title 2009

  • Vice President Itamar Franco took his place and governed for the remainder of Collor's term culminating in the October 3, 1994 presidential elections, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected President with 54\% of the vote.

    unknown title 2009

  • Vice President Itamar Franco took his place and governed for the remainder of Collor's term culminating in the October 3, 1994 presidential elections, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected President with 54\% of the vote.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the theater of memory, I see that it was a set piece: his concept was to lead our young minds through a chain of events culminating which is to say beginning, since he constructed his lectures as flashbacks in a mysterious, inexplicable event that ignited the creation of the world.

    Seeking, Searching 2010

  • I am sure I cannot better express what may be called our culminating thought today, than by quoting some lines written by the Bishop of Western New York on that venerable relic:

    Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Diocese Of Connecticut

  • This occurrence has been not unjustly termed the culminating point of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Emerson has been called the culminating flower of seven generations of

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885

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