Mount

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The word mount (from the Latin mons, 'mountain' or hill) has many meanings:

• A mount is a riding animal, i.e. a (usually domesticated) animal intending for riding—an equine such as horse, camel, elephant or garuda. To mount means to sit astride such an animal.
• To mount is to climb or to stand atop something. In this sense, it can also refer euphemistically to copulation, especially between animals.
• Mounting, in taxidermy, is the preparation of dead animals for display.
• Mounting, in graphic arts, is attaching an item such a print to a heavy backing such as foamcore
• A mount is a point where additional equipment, such as a weapon, camera, winch and telescope can be attached to a vehicle so that the vehicle itself, rather than the operator, supports the weight of the equipment. (See also turret, hard point and pintel.)
• A mount is a device used to position, support, and stabilize a telescope.
• A mount in grappling is a favorable position where a combatant sits astride the adversary's chest.
• A mount in gymnastics is the maneuver of going from the ground onto a gymnastic apparatus, such as the balance beam or parallel bars.
• "Mount" may be short for mountain, especially in names such as Mount Ararat. (For a list of such mountains, see List of mountains.)
• Mounting is also a computer term when dealing with file systems.
• Mount Points are also used in streaming software systems.
• The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts) is the name of Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires.

For people named Mount, see Mount (surname).