Definitions of climax:
- noun: the decisive moment in a novel or play
Example: "The deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
- noun: arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
- noun: the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Example: "The climax of the artist's career"
- noun: the most severe stage of a disease
- noun: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- verb: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage