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Mount may refer to:

Displays and equipment

  • Weapon mount, equipment used to secure an armament
  • A fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe
  • Hanging scroll for mounting paintings
  • The display of an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore
  • Preservation methods used for display e.g. in a museum of fixed dead biological specimen which can be classified into wet or dry methods.
    • Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy
  • Mounting a coverslip on a specimen on a microscopic slide.
  • Telescope mount, a device used to support a telescope
  • Lens mount, an interface used to fix a lens to a camera

Computing and software

Places

Education

Other meanings

  • Mount (grappling), a grappling position
  • Mountain, a landform
  • Copulation, the union of the sex organs in mating
  • Riding animal, any animal that can be ridden
  • Vahana, also called a mount, an animal or mythical entity closely associated with a particular deity in Hindu mythology
  • Boarding an apparatus used for gymnastics, such as a balance beam
  • Adding butter to a sauce in order to thicken it, as with beurre monté

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