°The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
            
            
              "A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount."
            
        verb
          
            
            
              "She carefully dismounted from the horse."
            
          
            
              °(computing) (
transitive) to make a 
hard drive unavailable for use.
            
 
            
              "The VMS operator tried to dismount the unix hard drive with the  command, instead of ."
            
        
          synonyms:
          unmount, umount