culmination
n. countablen. the final result of a long process or a lot of hard work. It is the highest point or the end of a series of events.
n. the highest point of attainment or the final stage of a process, typically reached after a long period of time. Often implies the successful completion of a series of actions.
The concert was the culmination of months of practice.
The new law represents the culmination of years of campaigning by environmental activists.
The gallery's retrospective exhibition serves as the culmination of the artist's forty-year career, bringing together works from every major period of her creative development.
Borrowed from French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion. Morphologically culminate + -ion.
Often used with the preposition 'of' to indicate the process that led to the result.