mounting

Other forms of mounting

plural

mountings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mounting

What does mounting mean?

mounting means "an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mounting?

mounting has 2 syllables: moun-ting. The stress falls on "moun". In IPA it is /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/.

What is another word for mounting?

Close synonyms include climb, climbing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mounting a common word?

mounting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.