mountableadj.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊntəbl/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊn(t)əb(ə)l/

Forms: see mount v. and -able suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mount v., -able suffix.

Etymology: < mount v. + -able suffix. Compare Old French, Middle French montable (late 12th cent.). Compare earlier unmountable adj.

1. Capable of being ascended; capable of being placed on a mount, mounting, base, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [adjective] > climbing > that may be climbed

scalable1579

mountable1596

climbable1611

transcendible1684

ascendable1755

ascendible1864

1596 F. Vere Comm. (1657) ii. 38 A massy rampier, with two round half bulwarks,..not steeped and scarped: so as it was very mountable.

a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1657) 38 [The rampier] was very mountable, and lay close to the old wall of the town.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Klimmelick, climmable, Mountable, or Easie to Get up.

1913 Amer. Midland Naturalist 3 9 Mostly unstained mounts of the spores, sporangia, capillitium, peridium of the mountable forms.

1957 Science 3 May 903 (advt.) Interchangeable heat-transfer blocks mountable on a single heating base.

1990 R. Rolley Calming Traffic Resid. Areas (BNC) 63 Speed control bends of more than 90 degrees deflection and with tight radii and mountable shoulders.

2. Computing. Of a file system or an area of data storage: capable of being made accessible to a computer's operating system. Cf. mount v. 32.

ΚΠ

1972 H. L. Morgan Optimal Space Allocation on Disk Storage Devices (California Inst. Technol. Techn. Rep. AD 746 495) Introd., 1 During the last several years hundreds of computers have been equipped with direct access storage devices (dasds) with mountable volumes.

1977 IBM Techn. Disclosure Bull. 20 1710 Addressing from the CPU host to SSF is in the virtual address space involving virtual volumes mountable on logical units.

1993 MacUser Oct. 161 The Happy Mac makes its first appearance when your Mac finds a mountable volume. If that volume is unbootable.., the Mac puts up an icon of a disk with an X in it and starts hunting for mountable volumes again.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mountable
释义	mountableadj. Brit. /ˈmaʊntəbl/, U.S. /ˈmaʊn(t)əb(ə)l/ Forms: see mount v. and -able suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mount v., -able suffix. Etymology: < mount v. + -able suffix. Compare Old French, Middle French montable (late 12th cent.). Compare earlier unmountable adj. 1. Capable of being ascended; capable of being placed on a mount, mounting, base, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [adjective] > climbing > that may be climbed scalable1579 mountable1596 climbable1611 transcendible1684 ascendable1755 ascendible1864 1596 F. Vere Comm. (1657) ii. 38 A massy rampier, with two round half bulwarks,..not steeped and scarped: so as it was very mountable. a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1657) 38 [The rampier] was very mountable, and lay close to the old wall of the town. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Klimmelick, climmable, Mountable, or Easie to Get up. 1913 Amer. Midland Naturalist 3 9 Mostly unstained mounts of the spores, sporangia, capillitium, peridium of the mountable forms. 1957 Science 3 May 903 (advt.) Interchangeable heat-transfer blocks mountable on a single heating base. 1990 R. Rolley Calming Traffic Resid. Areas (BNC) 63 Speed control bends of more than 90 degrees deflection and with tight radii and mountable shoulders. 2. Computing. Of a file system or an area of data storage: capable of being made accessible to a computer's operating system. Cf. mount v. 32. ΚΠ 1972 H. L. Morgan Optimal Space Allocation on Disk Storage Devices (California Inst. Technol. Techn. Rep. AD 746 495) Introd., 1 During the last several years hundreds of computers have been equipped with direct access storage devices (dasds) with mountable volumes. 1977 IBM Techn. Disclosure Bull. 20 1710 Addressing from the CPU host to SSF is in the virtual address space involving virtual volumes mountable on logical units. 1993 MacUser Oct. 161 The Happy Mac makes its first appearance when your Mac finds a mountable volume. If that volume is unbootable.., the Mac puts up an icon of a disk with an X in it and starts hunting for mountable volumes again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1596
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