mounting

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)Synonyms: climb climbing
framework used for support or display

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Mounting \Mount"ing\, n.

1.The act of one that mounts. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.(Aeronautics) same as Carriage. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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. [1913 Webster]

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.— Jer. li. 53.[1913 Webster]

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.— Cowley.[1913 Webster]

2.To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding. [1913 Webster]

3.To attain in value; to amount. [1913 Webster]

Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.— Pope.[1913 Webster]