unmount

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ mount.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Verb

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

1. (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 (de)
• Italian: smontare (it), disinstallare