mounting

1. not comparableThat continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.

   mounting debts

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   steadily mounting losses

   The pupils display great eagerness for knowledge and facility of acquisition. […] No severity of discipline is used or required; the threat of expulsion from the privileges of instruction being sufficient to tame the most mounting spirit.

   1864 September 30, E. M. W., “Education of the Freedmen”, in The Liberator, volume 34, number 40, Boston, page 160

   About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.

   1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mount

plural mountings

1. Something mounted to support something; an attachment.

   That particular plane must have hit an obstruction that ripped its undercarriage right off its mountings, to leave it suspended beneath.

   2021, Gerald Sherwood, Bomber Command Pilot

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   The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.

   1958 April 28, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275

2. The act of one who mounts.

   The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.

   1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales