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Definition of Monitor

Monitor
Monitor Mon"i*tor, n. [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.] 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. 2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long. 4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns. 5. (Mach.) 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 successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting. Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides.
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Monitor Mon"i*tor, n. A monitor nozzle.

Meaning of Monitor from wikipedia

- Monitor or monitor may refer to: Monitor, Alberta Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States Monitor, Kentucky Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community...
- A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or text form. A monitor usually comprises a visual display, some circuitry...
- Monitor lizards are large lizards in the genus Var****. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also found in the Americas as...
- Heart rate monitoring Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring Monitoring in clinical trials, oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a parti****nt's...
- The lace monitor or tree goanna (Var**** varius) is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach 2 metres...
- A monochrome monitor is a type of computer monitor in which computer text and images are displa**** in varying tones of only one color, as opposed to a...
- The Monitor may refer to: The Monitor: Or, British Freeholder, an 18th-century British periodical The Monitor (Kirksville, MO), an alternative newspaper...
- Holter monitor (often simply Holter) is a type of ambulatory electrocardiography device, a portable device for cardiac monitoring (the monitoring of the...
- The Anti-Monitor is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He served as the main antagonist of the 1985 DC...
- USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...