Mount

Displays and equipment

• Lens mount
  Lens mount
  A lens mount is an interface — mechanical and often also electrical — between a photographic camera body and a lens. It is confined to cameras where the body allows interchangeable lenses, most usually the single lens reflex type or any movie camera of 16 mm or higher gauge...
  
  , an interface used to fix a lens to a camera
• Telescope mount
  Telescope mount
  A telescope mount is a mechanical structure which supports a telescope. Telescope mounts are designed to support the mass of the telescope and allow for accurate pointing of the instrument...
  
  , a device used to support a telescope
• A fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint
  Hardpoint
  A hardpoint is any part of an airframe designed to carry an external load. This technical description includes mountings for podded engines, but most commonly the term is used, as with weapon station, to refer to a point on the wings of military aircraft where external stores such as missiles,...
  
   on an airframe
• The display of an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore
  Foamcore
  Foam core or Foam board is a very strong, lightweight and easily cut material used for the mounting of photographic prints, as backing in picture framing, in 3D design, and in painting. It consists of three layers — an inner layer of polystyrene clad with outer facing of either a white...
  
  
• Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy
  Taxidermy
  Taxidermy is the act of mounting or reproducing dead animals for display or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all species of animals including mammals, birds, nematodes, reptiles and amphibians...
  
  

Computing and software

• Mount (computing)
  Mount (computing)
  Mounting, in computer science, is the process of making a file system ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time...
  
  , the process of making a file system accessible
• mount (Unix)
  Mount (Unix)
  The Unix command line utility mount instructs the operating system a file system is ready to use, and associates it with a particular point in the system's file system hierarchy . The counterpart umount [sic] instructs the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount...
  
  , the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems
• Mount (streaming)
  Mount (streaming)
  A mount point, in streaming media systems, is a virtual resource which references live or on-demand content within a multimedia media server system. Mount points are used to allow multimedia servers the ability to control multiple content sources and/or types on the same server instance. The...
  
  , a concept used in streaming software programs

Other meanings

• Mount (grappling)
  Mount (grappling)
  The mount or mounted position is a dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head. This is very favourable for the top combatant in several ways...
  
  , a grappling position
• Mountain
  Mountain
  A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. The adjective montane is used to describe mountainous areas and things associated with them...
  
  , a landform
• Copulation, the union of the sex organs in mating
• Riding animal, any animal that can be ridden
• Boarding an apparatus used for gymnastics
  Gymnastics
  Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique...
  
  , such as a balance beam
• Adding butter
  Butter
  Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying...
  
   to a sauce
  Sauce
  In cooking, a sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsus, meaning salted...
  
   in order to thicken it, as with beurre monté
  Beurre monte
  Beurre monté refers to melted butter that remains emulsified, even at temperatures higher than that at which butter usually breaks down. "Beurre monté" may refer either to the melted butter sauce itself, or to the method of making it....
  
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