Monitor

The word monitor is a Latin term for warner or suggester. The many uses of the word are listed below.

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)

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 broadcast
A [video monitor], a television-like device used in studio, lab or test environments
A set of speakers facing toward the stage rather than the audience so that performers can hear the sound better.

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)

A Hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school.
A Prefect, schoolboy or schoolgirl given special authority in some British schools, especially public schools

USS Monitor, the ironclad warship of the American civil war.
A monitor, 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...

Monitor (NBC radio), a popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.
Monitor Magazine (Ottawa), a free Canadian computer related magazine distributed around the Ottawa area since August 1993.
Monitor (BBC TV), a BBC arts programme that began 1958.
Monitor (NHS), a British organisation that regulates the NHS Foundation Trusts.
Monitor (DC Comics), 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).
Monitor (Polish newspaper), a Polish 18th century newspaper,
Monitor (Bulgarian newspaper), a Bulgarian newspaper
A device for channeling water under high pressure against a surface, also known as a water cannon, was used in hydraulic mining in California.
Monitor lizards, 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, a strategy consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The original version of this page was based on monitor at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC), and is used with permission under the GFDL.