Definizione monolingua

monitor

monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)

1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
   • 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide, World Health Organization, page 134,

     Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.

   • 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers, Volumes 23-373, page 239,

     During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.

   • 2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,

     A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.

monitor (plural monitors)

1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.

   The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.

2. (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.

   The information flashed up on the monitor.

3. (computing) A program for viewing and editing, as in machine code monitor.
4. (UK) A student leader in a class.
   • 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europas School,

     So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.

   • 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St. Dominics, Chapter X,

     But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors!

5. (nautical) A class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
6. (archaic) An ironclad.
7. A monitor lizard.

Definizione dizionario monitor

	monitor
	computer display
	Periferica informatica che permette di mostrare delle informazioni sotto forma di testo o di immagini.
	Computer peripheral that allows to display information in the form of text or images.
	The device on which images generated by the computer's video adapter are displayed. The term monitor usually refers to a video display and its housing. The monitor is attached to the video adapter by a cable.

	controllare
	To keep under surveillance.

	monitorare
	watch over, guard
	To keep under surveillance.

	schermo
	Periferica informatica che permette di mostrare delle informazioni sotto forma di testo o di immagini.
	Computer peripheral that allows to display information in the form of text or images.

	controllore
	Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided.

	supervisionare
	watch over, guard

capoclasse

monitore

monitorizzare

origliare

varano

video

vigilare

Altri significati:

(archaic) An ironclad

(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.

A monitor lizard.

(US, obsolete) An all-iron steam-powered screw-propelled warship with one or two dual gun turrets, and low freeboard

(nautical) A class of warship designed for shore bombardment rather than combat with other ships.

(UK) A student leader in a class

(military) A type of armored warship designed for riverine warfare

someone who watches over something

Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.

(transitive) To watch over, guard.

(computing) A program for viewing and editing, as in '''machine code monitor''' .