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English Dictionary: mounting by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mounting
n
  1. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
    Synonym(s): climb, climbing, mounting
  2. framework used for support or display
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mount \Mount\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mounted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Mounting}.] [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons,
      montis, mountain. See {Mount}, n. (above).]
      1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to
            tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
  
                     Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. --Jer. li.
                                                                              53.
  
                     The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
                                                                              --Cowley.
  
      2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold;
            especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
  
      3. To attain in value; to amount.
  
                     Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make
                     fair deductions, see to what they mount. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mounting \Mount"ing\, n.
      1. The act of one that mounts.
  
      2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to
            advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the
            mounting of a sword or diamond.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mounting \Mount"ing\, n. (A[89]ronautics)
      = {Carriage}.
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