'Mounting' definitions:

Definition of 'mounting'

From: WordNet
noun
An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb, climbing, mounting]
noun
Framework used for support or display

Definition of 'Mounting'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Definition of 'Mounting'

From: 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.]

Synonyms of 'mounting'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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