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Dismount vs Disassemble - What's the difference?

dismount | disassemble |

As verbs the difference between dismount and disassemble

is that dismount is to get off (something while disassemble is to take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

As a noun dismount

is the part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

dismount

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
    • A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) to get off (something)
    • She carefully dismounted from the horse.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.
  • (computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
    • The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
  • To come down; to descend.
  • * Spenser
    • But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount .

    Synonyms

    * (computing ) unmount, umount

    Antonyms

    * (to get off of ) get on * (computing ) mount

    disassemble

    English

    Verb

  • To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
    • To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
  • (computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.

    • Related terms

    * assembly * disassembly * disassembler