summits

Noun

summit (plural summits)

1. The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
   • In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

   Synonyms:

   acme, summity, zenith

2. A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.

   Synonyms:

   acme, summity, zenith

3. The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.

   Synonyms:

   acme, summity, zenith

4. (obsolete) Synonym of anther (“the pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower”) or (rare) stigma (“the sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination”).

   Synonyms:

   acme, summity, zenith, anther

5. (obsolete, rare) One of the two vertices of a crystal with a rhombohedral shape where the angles of each face are equal; also, the highest point of a crystal with a pyramidal or tetrahedral shape.

   Synonyms:

   acme, summity, zenith

6. (figuratively) The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
   • Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 153

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