Summit vs Fastigium - What's the difference?
summit | fastigium |
(countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
(countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
(transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
* 2012 , Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic , vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:
An apex or summit
(architecture) A pediment or gable end
(pathology) The most intense phase of a disease (especially a fever)
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As nouns the difference between summit and fastigium
is that summit is (countable) a peak; the top of a mountain while fastigium is an apex or summit.As a verb summit
is (transitive|hiking|climbing|colloquial) to reach the summit of a mountain.summit
English
Noun
(en noun)- In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mt. Shasta.
- They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
Usage notes
Colloquially summit' is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a '''summit , such as the South Summit of (Mount Everest). These are distinguished by (topographic prominence) as ''subsummits'' (low prominence) or ''independent summits (high prominence).Synonyms
* acme, apex, peak, zenithDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
- Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited .
