0 If an event or series of events culminates in something, it ends with it, having developed until it reaches this point: --
1 to have as a result or be the final result of a process: --
This exercise culminated in a report released in 1995 recommending specific improvements to the current measures.
But the consumer society boom gave rise to a growing uneasiness typical of the third period which culminated with the crisis of 1974-6.
This historical process culminated in the early-nineteenth-century defeat of ancient humoralism.
It culminated, as noted, in the trial of the justices of the peace.
This meeting initiated the process that finally culminated in the settlement of the strike.
A scherzo breaks in, which culminates in a brass fanfare leading to the slow movement.
Public dissent over the new tax system culminated in a spate of demonstrations and industrial action throughout the country.
The portfolio of chemokines produced dictates which cell types are recruited locally, culminating in either resistance or susceptibility to infection.
