Mount
Look up Mount, mount, mounted, or mounting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
- Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
- Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England
- Mounts, Indiana, a community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States
People
- Mount (surname)
- William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician
Computing and software
- Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible
- Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems
Displays and equipment
- Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe
- Mounting board, in picture framing
- Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings
- Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.:
- To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display
- To prepare dead animals for display in taxidermy
- Lens mount, an interface used to fix a lens to a camera
- Mounting, placing a cover slip on a specimen on a microscopic slide
- Telescope mount, a device used to support a telescope
- Weapon mount, equipment used to secure an armament
- Picture mount
Sports
- Mount (grappling), a grappling position
- Mount, to board an apparatus used for gymnastics, such as a balance beam
Other uses
- Mount, in copulation, the union of the sex organs in mating
- Mount, a riding animal
- Mount, or Vahana, an animal or mythical entity closely associated with a particular deity in Hindu mythology
- Mount, to add butter to a sauce in order to thicken it, as with beurre monté
See also
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- All pages with titles containing mounts
- All pages with titles containing mount
- The Mount (disambiguation)
- Mountain (disambiguation)
- Massif (disambiguation)
- Hill (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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