Monitor

Monitor may refer to:

Computers

• Computer monitor, a screen that displays output from a computer.
• Monitor (synchronization), an approach to synchronize two or more computer tasks that use a shared resource
• Machine code monitor, programming allowing users to view or change memory locations on a computer
• Virtual Machine Monitor, software which virtualizes a computer hardware platform, allowing multiple system images to run simultaneously.
• a small interactive bootstrap program or machine code debugger
• a mechanism used to synchronize concurrent processes
• Resident monitor, an early primitive operating system
• an execution profiler

Medical applications

• Heart monitor, an electronic device that measures the heart rate
• Oxygen monitor, an electronic device that measures the amount of oxygen in the blood
• Medical monitor, automated medical device that senses and displays a patient's vital signs

Place names

• Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States
• Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community in the United States
• Loope, California, formerly Monitor

Media

• Monitor (TV series), a BBC arts programme which aired from 1958 to 1965
• Monitor (NBC Radio), an NBC Radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975
• Monitor (Polish newspaper), an 18th-century Polish newspaper
• Monitor (magazine), a weekly newsmagazine published in Podgorica, Montenegro
• Concord Monitor, a daily newspaper in New Hampshire, USA
• Monitor (comics), a DC comics character
• Monitor (TV magazine), a german weekly tv news magazine
• Internet Monitor, or Monitor.hr, a Croatian web portal
• "Monitor" a work by English video artist Stephen Partridge made in 1975

Audio and music production

• Studio monitors, loudspeakers designed specifically for audio production and engineering
• Stage monitors or foldback (sound engineering), loudspeakers for performers on stage
• In-ear monitors, earpieces for performers on stage or in a studio

Other meanings

• Monitor Group, a management consulting firm
• Monitor (warship), a heavily armed warship design preceding the battleship
• USS Monitor, a monitor of the United States Navy
• Monitor (architecture), a subsidiary roof structure
• Water jet used in hydraulic mining
• Fire monitor, a water jet used for firefighting
• Monitor (NHS), a United Kingdom government agency also known as the Independent Regulator for NHS Foundation Trusts
• Monitor lizard, any lizard of the family Varanidae
• Hall monitor, a student who supervises the corridors of a school

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Monitor
• All pages with titles containing Monitor
• The Monitor (disambiguation)
• The Monitors (disambiguation)
• Monitoring (disambiguation)