Definition of "dismount"

dismount

/dɪsˈmaʊnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted
1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
  Quotations
  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.
  2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track‎, Guardian Unlimited
2. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
  Quotations
  PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.
  1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130
3. (intransitive) To come down; to descend.
  Quotations
  But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586,
4. (military, transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
noun
plural dismounts
1. The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
2. (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.