climatic vs climactic
Definitions
adjective
- of or relating to a climate
Examples
Through a set of smart green building strategies the "bioclimatic" buildings are able to significantly reduce their environmental footprint.
Ten plant functional types (PFTs) are differentiated by physiological, morphological, phenological, bioclimatic, and fireresponse attributes.
Yet again invidious comparisons are made with our continental neighbours whose milk consumption, in part because of very different climatic conditions, is overwhelmingly of UHT milk.
Definitions
adjective
- consisting of or causing a climax
Examples
Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years.
The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
The identity of the killer is revealed in the movie's climactic ending.
