monitor
mo nuh ter
- n someone who supervises (an examination)
- n someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
- n an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
- n display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- n electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
- n a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
- n any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
- v keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
we are monitoring the air quality
the police monitor the suspect's moves - v check, track, or observe by means of a receiver
- To accomplish this, Space Command will assign one lead monitor to remain at the foreign launch base for the duration of the mission, and will typically form two teams of two .
- The average desktop computer, not including the monitor, consumes from 60 to 250 watts a day.
- E-Mail a Friend If computer monitors can shrink to almost nothing, why not keyboards? They soon may.