culmination

IPA: kʌɫmʌnˈeɪʃʌn

(astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
(UK) Endpoint (usually good) arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period, usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of something.
(US) Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
(US) A ceremony marking the completion of studies at an elementary school, middle school or junior high school, the term "graduation" being reserved for high school.

Examples of "culmination" in Sentences

The mission model is the culmination.
The John Hancock sale was the culmination.
The culmination was the destruction of the city.
The dismissal was the culmination of the crisis.
The culmination will be a live performance Saturday by the rapper Fabolous.
The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday.
The iPad, which they called the culmination of an approach that he has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career.
This was truer than Judis realized, for he seemed not quite to grasp that a culmination is the reaching of the highest point.
Its culmination is expressed in the proverb: "A woman should leave her home but three times, – when she is christened, when she is married, and when she is buried."
In a show of how much IBM has bought into the cloud, the company has announced something that it calls the culmination of more than 10 years of software management best practices.
Although these physical attributes are shared by other Oriental and also by the Latin races, they reach a climax in the Jewish type, which in its culmination is unsympathetic to the Anglo-Saxon, the Oriental, or the Latin people.
"Embassytown" might be called the culmination of these interests: For his eighth novel he has created a new city on a new world in a new universe, one underpinned by the immer, a "big and tidal quiddity" where normal rules of space and time do not apply and which ships cross to travel between planets.