Monitor

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Contents 1 Display technology 2 Roles or positions 3 Warships 4 Other meanings

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

[edit] 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 each other.
• A studio monitor
• A video monitor, a television-like device used in studio, lab or test environments.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 riverine and 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.

[edit] Other meanings

• Monitor lizards, a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).
• Monitor Group is a global strategy and management consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 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, and is used in china clay pits.
• Monitor (band), an underground No Wave band from New York.
• 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 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.
• Monitor, a village in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

• See The Monitor and Monitoring for other possible meanings.

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.