DISMOUNT

dismount

Noun

  1. The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
    A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

Verb

  1. to get off (something)
    She carefully dismounted from the horse.
  2. to make a hard drive unavailable for use
    The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
  3. To come down; to descend.


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