Plural of culmination; the highest points or final climactic moments of events or processes.
From culmination, derived from Latin culminatio (a reaching of the summit). The suffix -tion creates nouns from Latin verbs, so this word literally means 'the act of reaching the peak.'
The word 'culmination' originally had a precise astronomical meaning—the moment a star crosses the meridian—but it was so poetic that we now use it for everything from movie endings to recipe success.
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