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mountdown

mountdown noun: the act of mounting an electrical component onto a surface.

Noun

mountdown (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) The act of mounting an electrical component onto a surface.
    • Figure 4 shows a typical detail of a single chip mountdown to a module base plate.1975, International Solid-State Power Electronics Conference, Proceedings of POWERCON, volumes 1-2, page 46

Origin of mountdown

From mount + down.

Questions about mountdown

What does mountdown mean?
Mountdown means the act of mounting an electrical component onto a surface.
What part of speech is mountdown?
Mountdown is a noun.

Words near mountdown in the dictionary

  1. mountboards
  2. Mountbolus
  3. Mountcastle
  4. Mountcastles
  5. Mountcharles
  6. mountdown
  7. mountebank
  8. mountebanked
  9. mountebankeries
  10. mountebankery
  11. mountebanking

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