culminant

From French culminant.

culminant (comparative more culminant, superlative most culminant)

1. being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude
2. (by extension) predominant or highest quality, power, greatness etc.

   culminant point

• “culminant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kul.miˈnan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kul.miˈnant]
• Rhymes: -ant

culminant m or f (masculine and feminine plural culminants)

1. culminating

culminant

1. gerund of culminar

• IPA^(key): /kyl.mi.nɑ̃/

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• Homophone: culminants

culminant (feminine culminante, masculine plural culminants, feminine plural culminantes)

1. highest (typically of mountains)

culminant

1. present participle of culminer

• “culminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from French culminant.

culminant m or n (feminine singular culminantă, masculine plural culminanți, feminine/neuter plural culminante)

1. culminating