Monitor

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Contents 1 Computer and 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.

• For 'Monitor' the famous BBC TV arts programme of the 1960s refer to Ken Russell for references. This programme was the first to use film directors like Russell who used actors to re-enact scenes from the subjects' lives. Huw Wheldon was presenter.

[edit] Computer and Display Technology

• A computer display device.
• A computer programming utility for examining and modifying memory-resident machine code programs.
• A programming interface for synchronising concurrent access to a set of variables in a computer program.
• 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 (warship), 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.hr, a popular Croatian web portal.
• Monitor, a village in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
• Monitor Records, a US record company that distributed Soviet recordings from the Melodiya label during the 1960s and 1970s.

• 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.