MOUNTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mounting mean? 

• MOUNTING (noun)
  The noun MOUNTING has 2 senses:

1. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

2. framework used for support or display

  Familiarity information: MOUNTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

climb; climbing; mounting

Hypernyms ("mounting" is a kind of...):

ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)

Derivation:

mount (go up or advance)

mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Framework used for support or display

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mounting" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Meronyms (parts of "mounting"):

collet (a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mounting"):

chassis (a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device)

mat; matting (mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture)

mount; setting (a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place)

passe-partout (a mounting for a picture using gummed tape)

Derivation:

mount (fix onto a backing, setting, or support)

 Context examples 

A microbiological technique for specimen collection and mounting for microscopic examination that utilizes a cellulose-based adhesive ribbon.

(Cellulose Tape Method, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTI), it at its final mounting stage (assembly began last November).

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Mounting to it by two broad steps, and looking through, I thought I caught a glimpse of a fairy place, so bright to my novice-eyes appeared the view beyond.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mounting evidence points to high levels of inflammation as an important biological abnormality leading to depression in at least one third of patients.

(Scientists Reveal How Inflammation Affects The Life of Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There is mounting evidence that learning by observing others occurs throughout the animal kingdom.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

ILCs have received less attention despite their critical role in mounting the innate immune response.

(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)

A spanning framework used to support machinery, including that for mounting a device to be moved in a circular path.

(Gantry, NCI Thesaurus)

They don't come down here now; they're all mastheaded on them mountings for the fear of Benjamin Gunn.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Autoradiographic analysis performed by mounting the object for microscopy (e.g., on a glass slide) and bathing the object with a photographic emulsion that will record radioactive disintegrations occurring at close proximity.

(Microscopic Autoradiography, NCI Thesaurus)

I have one of my Baker Street boys mounting guard over him who would stick to him like a burr, go where he might.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)