Usually means: Reaching the highest point, climax.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. culminating: Merriam-Webster
  2. culminating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. culminating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Culminating, culminating: Wordnik
  5. culminating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. culminating: Wiktionary
  7. Culminating, culminating: Dictionary.com
  8. culminating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Culminating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Culminating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. culminating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. culminating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culminating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culminating: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culminating: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (culminate)

verb:  (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
verb:  (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
verb:  (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
verb:  (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to the culmen
▸ Also see culminate


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