Monitor

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: monitor.

The word monitor is a Latin word for warner or suggester. The many uses of the word are listed below.

Display technology

• A computer monitor (display screen)
• A medical monitor, or any other hardware device that measures electrical events, such as a heart rate monitor
• A speaker used on stage (facing the musicians) or in a studio to enable musicians to hear what is being performed
• A video monitor, a television-like device used in studio, lab or test environments
• A baby monitor, which lets parents hear what happens in their babies room from other parts of the house

Roles or positions

• A hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school

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 coastal defense in the 1860s and 1870s. It reappeared in a different form during the World War I and lasted until the end of World War II
• A river monitor, the strongest type of river warships

Other meanings

• Monitor lizards, a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae)

Related pages

• Monitoring

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