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Definition of Monitor

1. Noun. Someone who supervises (an examination).

2. Verb. Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance. "The police monitor the suspect's moves"

3. Noun. Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided.

4. Verb. Check, track, or observe by means of a receiver.

5. Noun. An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac.

6. Noun. Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor.

7. Noun. Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions.

8. Noun. A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble.

9. Noun. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles.

Definition of Monitor

1. n. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

2. n. A monitor nozzle.

Definition of Monitor

1. to keep track of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Monitor

1. 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. Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; especially, 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. 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. Origin: L, fr. Monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monitor

monished monishes monishing monism monism monisms monist Monistat monistic monistic

monists monition monitions monitive monitor (current term) monitor (current term) monitored monitorial monitories monitoring

monitoring monitoring device monitoring program monitors monitorship monitorships monitory monitor lizard monitor program monitrice

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