monitor

Meanings

Noun

• Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
• A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
• A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
• A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
• A program for viewing and editing.
• A student leader in a class.
• One of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
• An ironclad.
• A monitor lizard.
• One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
• 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 the several tools successively into position.
• A monitor nozzle.

Verb

• To watch over; to guard.

Related

Similar words

• oversee, supervise, track

Origin

• From Latin monitor, from perfect passive participle monitus, from verb monere