Monitor Noun ˈmɒnɪtə(R ˈmɑːnɪtər Details Today's Flights Displayed

• the details of today's flights are displayed on the monitor.
• the pages are designed to be viewed on a computer monitor.
• we included the costs of monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
• the security staff can see all the outside of the building on their cctv monitors.

monitor

1. a screen that shows information from a computer; a television screen used to show particular kinds of information
• SEE ALSO VDU
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• The details of today's flights are displayed on the monitor.
• The pages are designed to be viewed on a computer monitor.
• We included the costs of monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
• The security staff can see all the outside of the building on their CCTV monitors.
• the display quality on LCD monitors has greatly improved.
• The laboratory is replete with banks of video monitors.
2. a piece of equipment used to check or record something
• He was lying there hooked up to a heart monitor.
• Mia kept a two-way baby monitor in the living room so Harry's cries could be heard.
• A nurse checked his monitor for changes in ECG rhythms, pulse and oxygen saturation.
• The heart monitor shows the strength of your pulse.
3. a person whose job is to check that something is done fairly and honestly, especially in a foreign country
• UN monitors declared the referendum fair.
• The EU has agreed to provide monitors for the crossing.
• Monitors or observers help to build trust between the two sides.
4. a student in a school who performs special duties, such as helping the teacher
• He was a star pupil and the class monitor.
5. a large tropical lizard (= a type of reptile)
• A large monitor lizard, prehistoric in its beauty, stared at us.

Word Origin

• early 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin, from monit- ‘warned’, from the verb monere. Sense (2) dates from the 1930s.