high points

Noun

high point (plural high points)

1. A climax; the best time in a given period.
   • This has been the high point of my life.

   Synonyms:

   culmination, pinnacle, acme, apex, zenith, apogee, apotheosis, ascendance, capstone, climax

   Antonyms:

   low point

2. The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
   • Blanca Peak is one of just three ultra-prominence peaks, or “ultras,” in the state and the highpoint of the Sierra Blanca Range, a massif that includes ranked 14ers Ellingwood Point, Little Bear Peak, and Mount Lindsey.2008, Susan Joy Paul, Climbing Colorado's Mountains, Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141
3. · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used for a medium pause like a semicolon ; the Ancient Greek punctuation mark used for the end of a sentence like a full stop, then for a medium pause like a semicolon).
   • A more regular system was developed in the schools of Alexandria, its invention being ascribed to Aristophanes of Byzantium (260 B.C.). This was the use of the full point with certain values in certain positions (θέσεις) : the high point (στιγμὴ τελεία), equivalent to a full stop; the point on the...1893, Edward M. Thompson, Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography, New York: D. Appleton and Co., page 70

   Synonyms:

   ano teleia, high dot, raised dot, raised point

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