Climax
Klimax (ancient Greek κλίμαξ "stairs", "ladder", "increase") stands for:
- Climax (geography) , mountain pass or pass route along the steep drop of a mountain into the sea
- Klimax (language) , a rhetorical figure of accumulation or increase
- Klimax (music) , the repetition of a unit of meaning in the melody in an intensified form
- relatively stable final state of the vegetation, see climax vegetation
- The climax or turning point of the plot in the theory of drama, see peripetia
- Orgasm (technical language)
People:
- Achatius Klimax (around 5th century), saint and hermit in Asia Minor
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Wiktionary: Klimax - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
