Clarifying terminology related to mounting

I understand that "mounting" in Linux refers to associating some "device" (usually some storage drive or a partition thereof, but it could be a region of RAM, some memory-mapped hardware, etc.) with a filesystem node.

But - does "mount point" mean the node, or the device? Which of the two is "mounted"? And is it mounted "on" the other, or "at" the other, or just what?

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