[mon-i-ter] Pronunciation Key | 1. | a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order. |
| 2. | a person appointed to supervise students, applicants, etc., taking an examination, chiefly to prevent cheating; proctor. |
| 3. | a person who admonishes, esp. with reference to conduct. |
| 4. | something that serves to remind or give warning. |
| 5. | a device or arrangement for observing, detecting, or recording the operation of a machine or system, esp. an automatic control system. |
| 6. | an instrument for detecting dangerous gases, radiation, etc. |
| 7. | Radio and Television.
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| 8. | Computers.
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| 9. | Nautical.
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| 10. | a raised construction straddling the ridge of a roof and having windows or louvers for lighting or ventilating a building, as a factory or warehouse. |
| 11. | an articulated mounting for a nozzle, usually mechanically operated, which permits a stream of water to be played in any desired direction, as in firefighting or hydraulic mining. |
| 12. | Also called giant. (in hydraulic mining) a nozzle for dislodging and breaking up placer deposits with a jet of water. |
| 13. | any of various large lizards of the family Varanidae, of Africa, southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, fabled to give warning of the presence of crocodiles: several species are endangered. |
| 14. | Radio and Television.
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| 15. | to observe, record, or detect (an operation or condition) with instruments that have no effect upon the operation or condition. |
| 16. | to oversee, supervise, or regulate: to monitor the administering of a test. |
| 17. | to watch closely for purposes of control, surveillance, etc.; keep track of; check continually: to monitor one's eating habits. |
| 18. | to serve as a monitor, detector, supervisor, etc. |
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| mon·i·tor
(mŏn'ĭ-tər) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. mon·i·tored, mon·i·tor·ing, mon·i·tors v. tr.
v. intr. To act as a monitor. [Latin, from monēre, to warn; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.] mon'i·tor·ship' n. |
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monitor
| monitor | |
noun | |
| 1. | someone who supervises (an examination) [syn: proctor] |
| 2. | someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided [syn: admonisher] |
| 3. | an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac |
| 4. | display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor |
| 5. | electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions |
| 6. | a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble |
| 7. | any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles |
verb | |
| 1. | keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; "we are monitoring the air quality"; "the police monitor the suspect's moves" |
| 2. | check, track, or observe by means of a receiver |
| monitor
(mŏn'ĭ-tər) Pronunciation Key
A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen. Monitors generally employ cathode-ray tubes or flat-panel displays to project the image. See Note at pixel.
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monitor mon·i·tor (mŏn'ĭ-tər)
n.
A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system. v. mon·i·tored, mon·i·tor·ing, mon·i·tors
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monitor
1. A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected to a computer's video output. A monitor may be either monochrome (black and white) or colour (RGB). Colour monitors may show either digital colour (each of the red, green and blue signals may be either on or off, giving eight possible colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow) or analog colour (red, green and blue signals are continuously variable allowing any combination to be displayed). Digital monitors are sometimes known as TTL because the voltages on the red, green and blue inputs are compatible with TTL logic chips.
See also gamut, multisync, visual display unit.
2. A programming language construct which encapsulates variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an abstract data type. The monitor's variable may only be accessed via its access procedures and only one process may be actively accessing the monitor at any one time. The access procedures are critical sections. A monitor may have a queue of processes which are waiting to access it.
3. A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
4. To oversee a program during execution. For example, the monitor function in the Unix C library enables profiling of a certain range of code addresses. A histogram is produced showing how often the program counter was found to be at each position and how often each profiled function was called.
Unix man page: monitor(3).
5. A control program within the operating system that manages the allocation of system resources to active programs.
6. A program that measures software performance.
Monitor
Mon"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.]1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. You need not be a monitor to the king. --Bacon. 2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long. 4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns. 5. (Mach.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting. Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides.Monitor
Mon"i*tor\, n. A monitor nozzle.Copyright © 2008, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.













