Monitor
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The word monitor is a Latin term for warner or suggester. The many uses of the word are listed below.
Display technology
- A computer display.
- 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 to enable musicians to hear eachother.
- A studio monitor
- A video monitor, a television-like device used in studio, lab or test environments.
Roles or positions
- 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.
Warships
- 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.
Other meanings
- 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 (comics), a DC Comics character from 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 (band), an underground No Wave band from New York.
- 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.
- Monitor the regulatory body for NHS Foundation Trusts in the United Kingdom.
- Monitor (synchronization), a means for synchronising concurrent access in computer programs.
- Monitor.hr, a popular Croatian web portal.
- See The Monitor and Monitoring for other possible meanings.
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