For Climax we have terms and definitions in 7 topics. The topics are Drama, Drugs, Fish, Hunting, Poetry, Sex and Sexual Health.

Climax (Drama)

The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. The climax of John Updike's "A & P," for example, occurs when Sammy quits his job as a cashier.

Climax (Drugs)

Crack; heroin; isobutyl nitrite; inhalants

Climax (Fish)

The culminating stage in plant succession for a given site where the vegetation has reached a highly stable condition.

Climax (Hunting)

The culminating stage in plant succession for a given site. Climax vegetation is stable, self-maintaining, and self-reproducing.

Climax (Poetry)

Rhetorically, a series of words, phrases, or sentences arranged in a continuously ascending order of intensity. If the ascending order is not maintained, an anticlimax or bathos results.
Sidelight: The term is usually applied to the point of supreme interest in a series of thoughts or events, often the turning point of a play or narrative.

Climax (Sex)

Orgasm.

Climax (Sexual Health)

An orgasm or to have orgasm.

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