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| 1. | (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc. |
| 2. | a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.; major figure; legend: a giant in her field; an intellectual giant. |
| 3. | (often initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of the Gigantes. |
| 4. | Mining. monitor (def. 12). |
| 5. | Astronomy. giant star. |
| 6. | unusually large, great, or strong; gigantic; huge. |
| 7. | greater or more eminent than others. |
| a star having a diameter of from 10 to 100 times that of the sun, as Arcturus or Aldebaran. |
[mon-i-ter] | 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. |
| gi·ant (jī'ənt) n.
[Middle English, from Old French geant, jaiant, from Vulgar Latin *gagās, *gagant-, from Latin gigās, from Greek.] |
"In þat tyme wer here non hauntes Of no men bot of geauntes." [Wace's Chronicle, c.1330]
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
| giant star
A very large, bright non-main-sequence star that burns hydrogen at a much faster rate than a dwarf star. Giant stars are much more luminous and have shorter lifespans than the slower-burning dwarfs. The larger the giant, the shorter its lifespan; the largest stars, with solar mass of around 100, blaze at several hundred thousand times the energy of the Sun and will last only a few million years, a very brief time when compared with the Sun's 10-billion-year lifespan. Giant stars usually end their lives as supernovae , but even before that event the immense ultraviolet radiation they produce has a dramatic impact on their stellar surroundings; the presence of a giant star in a star system prevents the formation of new protostars because the radiation from the giant star breaks apart any nearby nebulae. |
| 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. |
giant
in folklore, huge mythical being, usually humanlike in form. The term derives (through Latin) from the Giants (Gigantes) of Greek mythology, who were monstrous, savage creatures often depicted with men's bodies terminating in serpentine legs. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, they were sons of Ge ("Earth") and Uranus ("Heaven"). The Gigantomachy was a desperate struggle between the Giants and the Olympians. The gods finally prevailed through the aid of Heracles the archer, and the Giants were slain. Many of them were believed to lie buried under mountains and to indicate their presence by volcanic fires and earthquakes. The Gigantomachy became a popular artistic theme (found, for example, on the frieze adorning the great altar at Pergamum), and it was interpreted as a symbol of the triumph of Hellenism over barbarism, of good over evil.
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