dismount

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to get off, or cause someone to get off, a horse, bicycle, or other thing being ridden

   The rider slowed before she tried to dismount from the horse.

2. 2
   verb

   to remove something from its mounting or make a mounted storage device unavailable

   Please dismount the external drive before unplugging it.

3. 3
   noun

   the movement of leaving a ridden object or detaching from gymnastics apparatus

   The gymnast finished the routine with a controlled dismount.

From dis- + mount, probably modeled on Old French desmonter ("to come down; unhorse"). The computing sense extends the physical idea: a storage volume is detached from the filesystem rather than from a literal support.

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