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unmounting

unmounting is the present participle and gerund of unmount.

Meaning of unmount

Verb

unmount (third-person singular simple present unmounts, present participle unmounting, simple past and past participle unmounted)

  1. (transitive) To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.
    • Please unmount the external hard drive before unplugging it.
    Synonyms:
    dismount, umount

Questions about unmounting

What is unmounting the present participle and gerund of?
Unmounting is the present participle and gerund of unmount.

Words near unmounting in the dictionary

  1. unmounded
  2. unmount
  3. unmountable
  4. unmountainous
  5. unmounted
  6. unmounting
  7. unmounts
  8. unmournable
  9. unmourned
  10. unmournful
  11. unmourning

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