rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism" end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian reach the highest or most decisive point
To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; applied to the growth of corals
If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it. They had an argument, which culminated in Tom getting drunk = conclude. culminate in/with if a process culminates in or with a particular event, it ends with that event
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian reach the highest or most decisive point