culmination vs minute

minute vs culmination

culmination and minute both are nouns.

culmination is not an adjective while minute is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
culmination	Yes	No	No	No
minute	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, minute is a hypernym of culmination; that is, minute is a word with a broader meaning than culmination:

culmination: the decisive moment in a novel or play
minute: a particular point in time

Other hypernyms of culmination include instant, moment, second.

culmination (noun)	minute (noun)
a concluding action	distance measured by the time taken to cover it
the decisive moment in a novel or play	a short note
(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon	a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
a final climactic stage	a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
	an indefinitely short time
	a particular point in time

culmination (adjective)	minute (adjective)
	characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
	infinitely or immeasurably small

Difference between culmination and minute

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