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The word monitor, depending on context, may have one of the following meanings:
- A Hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school.
- A computer display or screen
- A speaker used on stage or in a studio to enable musicians to hear what is being recorded or broadcasted
- A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
- A small interactive bootstrap program or machine code debugger
- An execution profiler
- USS Monitor, the ironclad warship of the American civil war.
- A monitor warship 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 unitl the end of the Second World War
- A river monitor, the strongest type of river warships.
- Monitor lizards are a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).
- A popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.
- Two characters from the DC Comics limited comic book series, Crisis on Infinite Earths.
- Also the AI that is the caretaker of Halo (better known as 343 Guilty Spark).
- A Polish 18th century newspaper
- A programming technique for managing access of parallel processes to shared resources while ensuring mutual exclusion: Monitor (synchronization)
The original version of this page was based on monitor (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=monitor) at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC (http://www.foldoc.org)), and is used with permission under the GFDL.
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