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1. Abbreviated as Mt.; a mountain or hill. Used especially as part of a proper name.
2. Any of the seven fleshy cushions around the edges of the palm of the hand in palmistry.
3. To go up; climb; ascend; such as, to mount the stairs.
2. To get up on (a platform, a horse, etc.).
3. To set or place at an elevation; that is, to mount a house on stilts.
4. To furnish with a horse or other animal for riding.
5. To prepare and to launch, as a military attack or a military campaign.
6. To attach to or to fix on or in a support, backing, setting, etc.: to mount a photograph; to mount a diamond in a ring.
7. To prepare (an animal body or skeleton) as a specimen.
8. To prepare (a sample) for examination by a microscope, as by placing it on a slide.
9. Etymology: When "mount" is a verb; from the 13th century, from Old French monter, "to go up, to ascend, to climb, to mount"; from Vulgar Latin montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain". Meaning "to set" or "to place in position" first recorded 1539. The sense of "to get up on (a horse, etc.) to ride" is from 1509. The colloquial noun meaning "a horse for riding" was first recorded 1856.
10. Etymology: When "mount" is used as a noun; "hill, mountain", from Anglo-French mount, from Old French mont, "mountain"; also, partly from Old English munt, "mountain"; both the Old English and the Old French came from Latin montem, "mountain".
2. Any of the seven fleshy cushions around the edges of the palm of the hand in palmistry.
3. To go up; climb; ascend; such as, to mount the stairs.
2. To get up on (a platform, a horse, etc.).
3. To set or place at an elevation; that is, to mount a house on stilts.
4. To furnish with a horse or other animal for riding.
5. To prepare and to launch, as a military attack or a military campaign.
6. To attach to or to fix on or in a support, backing, setting, etc.: to mount a photograph; to mount a diamond in a ring.
7. To prepare (an animal body or skeleton) as a specimen.
8. To prepare (a sample) for examination by a microscope, as by placing it on a slide.
9. Etymology: When "mount" is a verb; from the 13th century, from Old French monter, "to go up, to ascend, to climb, to mount"; from Vulgar Latin montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain". Meaning "to set" or "to place in position" first recorded 1539. The sense of "to get up on (a horse, etc.) to ride" is from 1509. The colloquial noun meaning "a horse for riding" was first recorded 1856.
10. Etymology: When "mount" is used as a noun; "hill, mountain", from Anglo-French mount, from Old French mont, "mountain"; also, partly from Old English munt, "mountain"; both the Old English and the Old French came from Latin montem, "mountain".
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mont-, mount-
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(Greek > Latin: Atlanticus, pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean or to Mount Atlas; from the Atlas mountains)
(Latin: mountain, hill)
(Latin: to climb; to mount; by extension, a ladder)
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equatorial mount
A sun-tracking mount, usually clock-driven, whose axis of rotation is parallel to that of the earth.
Mount Fujiyama
Mount Mountain
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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Sermon on the Mount
A discourse delivered by Jesus to the disciples and others, containing the Beatitudes and important fundamentals of Christian teaching. Matt. 5–7; Luke 6:20–49.
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altazimuth mount
A way of arranging a telescope mount so that the telescope can move parallel to the horizon (azimuth) and at right angles to the horizon (altitude).
Very easy to mechanize, it is becoming more popular in combination with computer control systems, which can alter the altitude and azimuth angles to follow the path of a star as it rises and sets.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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equatorial mount
A telescope mount with one axis parallel to the earth's rotation axis, and the other at right-angles to it.
This enables the telescope, once locked onto a star's position, to track or to follow the star using a motor drive to compensate for the earth's rotation.
Most large telescopes are mounted in this way, but the altazimuth mount, with its simpler construction, is becoming more popular.
An altizimuth mount is a mounting for astronomical telescopes that has separate axes for horizontal and vertical rotation.
Because celestial objects move in arcs across the sky, tracking their motions with an altazimuth mount requires adjustments of both axes.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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