Monitor
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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