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mountable

mountable

4.9
Can connect to a computer so you can open its files
  • adjective
  • /ˈmaʊntəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : montable
  • The mountable hard drive allowed me to easily transfer files between computers.

Examples

  • He connected the mountable device to his laptop to access its files.

  • This software is designed for mountable drives, making data retrieval simple.

  • Not too long ago, a security application handling key management for mountable hard disk encryption (encrypted mount) stored encryption keys in computer memory to grant "convenient access" to users while the hard disk was mounted as the next available disk letter.

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Surface Forms

mountable positive

Morphology

mountable = mount (transparent) = mount + able

Formed from the verb 'mount' (in computing, 'to make accessible') + '-able'; the meaning is directly compositional for users familiar with the computing sense.

Etymology

Mountable comes from the word mount, which means 'to put something on', and people used that idea as a picture for computers too. So a mountable drive is 'able to be connected' to a computer so you can open its files.