Backgrounding and Mounting

noun

• The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.
  • synonyms: background processing

verb

• Understate the importance or quality of.
  • usage: "he played down his royal ancestry"
  • synonyms: background, play down, downplay

noun

• An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc..
  • synonyms: climb, climbing
• Framework used for support or display.

verb

• Attach to a support.
  • usage: "They mounted the aerator on a floating"
  • synonyms: mount
• Go up or advance.
  • usage: "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
  • synonyms: wax, mount, climb, rise
• Fix onto a backing, setting, or support.
  • usage: "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"
  • synonyms: mount
• Put up or launch.
  • usage: "mount a campaign against pornography"
  • synonyms: mount
• Get up on the back of.
  • usage: "mount a horse"
  • synonyms: hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride
• Go upward with gradual or continuous progress.
  • usage: "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house"
  • synonyms: climb, climb up, mount, go up
• Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance.
  • usage: "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack"; "mount a play"
  • synonyms: mount, put on
• Copulate with.
  • usage: "The bull was riding the cow"
  • synonyms: ride, mount

• (n.) The act of one that mounts.
• (n.) That by which anything is prepared for use or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Mount.
• (n.) = Carriage.

(DoD, NATO) All preparations made in areas designated for the purpose, in anticipation of an operation. It includes the assembly in the mounting area, preparation and maintenance within the mounting area, movement to loading points, and subsequent embarkation into ships, craft, or aircraft if applicable.