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The word monitor is a Latin term for warner or suggester, and now has several different meanings depending on context. Some of these alternate meanings are listed below.

Contents 1 Use as a verb 2 Display technology 3 Computer software 4 Roles or positions 5 Navy ships 6 Other meanings

Use as a verb

When used as a verb, "to monitor" or "monitoring" may mean:

• to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time
• to observe the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups (see surveillance)

Display technology

• A computer display or screen
• 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 or in a studio to enable musicians to hear what is being recorded or broadcasted

Computer software

• A small interactive bootstrap program or machine code debugger
• An execution profiler
• A programming technique for managing access of parallel processes to shared resources while ensuring mutual exclusion: Monitor (synchronization)

Roles or positions

• A Hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school.
• A Prefect (empowered schoolboy or schoolgirl) in certain British schools, especially public schools

Navy ships

• USS Monitor, the ironclad warship of the American civil war.
• A monitor is a type of ship based on the USS Monitor and built by several navies for coastal defence 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.

Other meanings

• Monitor was a popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.
• Monitor is a British organisation that regulates the NHS Foundation Trusts.
• Two characters from the DC Comics limited comic book series, Crisis on Infinite Earths.
• The AI that is the caretaker of Halo (better known as 343 Guilty Spark).
• A Polish 18th century newspaper, Monitor (newspaper)
• A device for channeling water under high pressure against a surface, also known as a water cannon, was used in hydrolic mining in California.
• Monitor lizards are a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).
• 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 Group is a strategy consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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