Mount

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

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• A mount is a Riding animal, i.e. a (usually domesticated) animal intending for riding? mainly horse and other equines, camel, elephant or garuda, for example.
• The related verb 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 coitus, especially between animals.
• 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 supports the weight of the equipment, rather than the operator. See also turret, hard point and pintel.
• A mount is a position in grappling.
• A mount in gymnastics is the manuever 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.
• To mount a file system, in computer science, is to make it ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time. Devices may be mounted automatically (generally called automounting) depending on the operating system; see filesystem.