monitor

Definitions

• 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.
• (computing) 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.
• (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
• (British) A student leader in a class.
• (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
• (archaic) An ironclad.
• A monitor lizard.
• (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
• (engineering) 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.