MONITOR

'Monitor' can have one of many meanings:

Contents

Computer and display technology

Roles or positions

Warships

Media

Other meanings

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. Also called foldback.

★ A studio monitor

★ A video monitor, a television-like device used in studio, lab or test environments.

★ A supervisory control system for installations such as SCADA to monitor important system parameters. Special installations require adapted monitoring installations like transformer monitors or substation monitors.

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.

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.

Media

★ ''Monitor (BBC TV)'', a BBC arts programme that began 1958. See Huw Wheldon.

★ ''Monitor (Bulgarian newspaper)'', a Bulgarian newspaper.

★ ''Monitor (journal)'', the scientific journal of the Victorian Herpetelogical Society, Australia.

★ ''Monitor (NBC Radio)'', a popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.

★ ''Monitor (Polish newspaper)'', a Polish 18th century newspaper.

★ Monitor.hr, a popular Croatian web portal.

★ ''Monitor Magazine (Ottawa)'', a free Canadian computer related magazine distributed around the Ottawa area since August 1993.

Other meanings

★ Monitor lizards, a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).

★ Monitor Group is a global strategy and management consulting firm headquartered in Massachusetts.

★ Monitor (NHS), a British organisation that regulates the NHS Foundation Trusts in the United Kingdom.

★ 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).

★ 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, Indiana, a site 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, The Monitors and Monitoring for other possible meanings.''