Mount is often used as part of the name of specific

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...

s, e.g.

Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...

. Mount or Mounts may also refer to:

Places

Mount, Cornwall Mount is a village in the parish of Warleggan in east Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. ...

, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England

People

Mount (surname) Mount is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anson Mount (born 1973), American actor * Charles Mount (1928–1995), American artist * Deiontrez Mount (born 1993), American football player * Evelina Mount (1837–1920), America ...

* William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician

Computing and software

Mount (computing) Mounting is a process by which a computer's operating system makes Computer file, files and Directory (computing), directories on a Computer data storage, storage device (such as Hard disk drive, hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share) available f ...

, the process of making a file system accessible *

Mount (Unix) In computing, mount is a command in various operating systems. Before a user can access a file on a Unix-like machine, the file system on the device which contains the file needs to be mounted with the mount command. Frequently mount is used fo ...

, the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems

Books

* ''Mount!'', a 2016 novel by Jilly Cooper

Displays and equipment

* Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe * Mounting board, in picture framing * Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings * Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: ** To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display ** To prepare dead animals for display in taxidermy * Lens mount, an interface used to fix a lens to a camera * Mounting, placing a cover slip on a specimen on a microscopic slide * Telescope mount, a device used to support a telescope * Weapon mount, equipment used to secure an armament * Mat (picture framing), Picture mount

Sports

* Mount (grappling), a grappling position * Mount, to board an apparatus used for gymnastics, such as a balance beam

Other uses

* Mount, in copulation (zoology), copulation, the union of the sex organs in mating * Mount, a riding animal * Mount, or Vahana, an animal or mythical entity closely associated with a particular deity in Hindu mythology * Mount, to add butter to a sauce in order to thicken it, as with ''beurre monté''