mounting

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mounting

  • /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/

Rhymes with -aʊntɪŋ

adjective

  1. not comparable That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating. mounting debts

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of mount

noun mountings

  1. Something mounted to support something; an attachment. The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
  2. The act of one who mounts. The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.

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Closest in meaning: climb, instigation, climbing, fomentation, increasingly, increasing, increase, growing, heightened, widening, escalation, placing, ascending, fixation, fitting, rise

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@misc{mounting_2026,
  title = {mounting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mounting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}