It is called climax to the point of greatest intensity or strength in an increasing series, being its highest point.
In any case, the word climax has different uses depending on the context in which it is used.
For the narratology, which is the discipline that deals with studying the fundamental elements of the narrative, the climax is the moment in which a plot, a work, reaches its highest point, of highest tension; generally, it is situated in the denouement of the work in question, although this does not always turn out to be the case since it can occur in the middle of the narrative, to then present the consequences that the climax has originated in each of the characters. Meanwhile, the opposite of the climax is the anticlimax, that moment of increasing tension but that is resolved without a final increase in tension, for example, when a violent conflict is suddenly resolved peacefully.
On the other hand, in the field of ecology, the climax refers to the more stable situation to which an ecosystem is capable of reaching. When an ecosystem evolves with maturity and approaches the ideal balance and a better use of material resources, thus increasing the trophic levels and their complexity, it will be said that it has reached the climax and the community that lives in it will be called climax community.
And in matter sexual the term climax also turns out to be very frequent since in that way the moment in which individuals feel greater sexual pleasure during sexual intercourse. Climax is a synonym for orgasm.
Before the sexual climax occurs, the concentration of blood rises to the genitals to a maximum and at the peak of pleasure or climax, contractions of the muscles in the area occur.
