 The word monitor derives from the Latin word for warner or warning. Depending on context, it may have one of the following meanings: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ When used as a verb, to monitor can mean: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - To watch a situation in order to see how it changes over time.
- To listen to or watch other people's communications, such as phone calls
In the context of electronic technology, a monitor can be: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - 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
In the context of computer software, a monitor can be: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - 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)
When referring to persons, monitor can mean: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - A Hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school.
- A Prefect (empowered schoolboy or schoolgirl) in certain British schools, especially public schools
When referring to military ships, monitor can mean: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - 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 defence 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: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - A popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.
- 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 (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).
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