unmount

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -aʊnt

Verb

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

(computing, 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.

Synonyms

dismount
(Unix jargon) umount

Translations

reverse operation of mount

Dutch: ontkoppelen (nl)
Finnish: irrottaa (fi)

German: aushängen
Italian: smontare (it), disinstallare

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