n.1.One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
You need not be a monitor to the king.
- Bacon.
3.(Zool.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
6.A monitor nozzle.
Monitor top
Noun1.Monitormonitor - display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen
2.Monitormonitor - someone who supervises (an examination)
Synonyms: proctor
3.monitor - someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
Synonyms: admonisher, reminder
4.Monitor - an iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
5.monitor - electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
6.monitor - a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
7.Monitormonitor - any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
Verb1.monitor - keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance

see blood glucose meter.


See also gamut, multisync, visual display unit.
3.monitor - A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.

Unix man page: monitor(3).
5.monitor - A control program within the operating system that manages the allocation of system resources to active programs.
6.monitor - A program that measures software performance.
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