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The word monitor is a Latin term for warner or suggester, and now has several different meanings depending on context. Some of these alternate meanings are listed below.
Contents
- 1 Use as a verb
- 2 Display technology
- 3 Computer software
- 4 Roles or positions
- 5 Warships
- 6 Other meanings
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Use as a verb
When used as a verb, "to monitor" or "monitoring" may mean:
- to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time
- to observe the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups (see surveillance)
Display technology
- A computer display or screen.
- A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
- A medical monitor
- A speaker used on stage or in a studio to enable musicians to hear what is being recorded or broadcasted
- A video monitor such as is used in studio, lab or test environments
Computer software
- A small interactive bootstrap program or machine code debugger
- An execution profiler
- A programming technique for managing access of parallel processes to shared resources while ensuring mutual exclusion: Monitor (synchronization)
Roles or positions
- A Hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school.
- A Prefect (empowered schoolboy or schoolgirl) in certain British schools, especially public schools
Warships
- USS Monitor, the ironclad warship of the American civil war.
- A monitor is a type of ship based on the USS Monitor and built by several navies for coastal defense in the 1860s and 1870s. It reappeared in a different form during the First World War and lasted until the end of the Second World War
- A river monitor, the strongest type of river warships...
Other meanings
- Monitor was a popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.
- Monitor is a free Canadian computer related magazine distributed around the Ottawa area since August 1993.
- Monitor was a BBC arts programme that began 1958.
- Monitor is a British organisation that regulates the NHS Foundation Trusts.
- Two characters from the DC Comics limited comic book series, Crisis on Infinite Earths.
- The AI that is the caretaker of Halo (better known as 343 Guilty Spark).
- A Polish 18th century newspaper, Monitor (Polish newspaper)
- A Bulgarian newspaper, Monitor (Bulgarian newspaper)
- A device for channeling water under high pressure against a surface, also known as a water cannon, was used in hydrolic mining in California.
- Monitor lizards are a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).
- A device (attached to the back of the child's neck) used for monitoring nearly every aspect of a child's life in the science fiction novel Ender's Game.
- Monitor Group is a strategy consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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