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Definition of Culminant
1. a. Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.
Definition of Culminant
1. Adjective. Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude. ¹
2. Adjective. (by extension) predominant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Culminant
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culminant
Literary usage of Culminant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1853)
"form, to the Sierra Parime; the latter, to the Brazil chains, running also from
SW to Jf.E. The culminant points of those two systems rise to 1138 and 10-10 ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1826)
"ning alike from SW to NE The culminant points of those two systems rise to 1138
... I have preferred indicating in this table the culminant points of each ..."
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