monitoring Chinese social-media platforms has paid off for the Chinese government.
Throughout Christmas eve and day, the world is monitoring with bated breath.
He takes great pleasure in demonstrating the monitoring procedure.
This season is all about monitoring posture, scrutinizing sun exposure, even exploring the health of a pet.
Police officers were on the scene, monitoring the demonstrators.
The next year'll be your last one at the monitoring, won't it?
We are monitoring his frequency and your call was relayed to me.
I speak English because we've been monitoring your radio broadcasts for years.
Plainly the long hours of monitoring the Aztec's instruments had made him soft.
Louise and Penny were curious to learn more about the monitoring truck.
1540s, "senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order, etc.," from Latin monitor "one who reminds, admonishes, or checks," also "an overseer, instructor, guide, teacher," agent noun from monere "to admonish, warn, advise," related to memini "I remember, I am mindful of," and to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
The type of lizard so called because it is supposed to give warning of crocodiles (1826). Meaning "squat, slow-moving type of ironclad warship" (1862) so called from name of the first vessel of this design, chosen by the inventor, Swedish-born U.S. engineer John Ericsson (1803-1889), because it was meant to "admonish" the Confederate leaders in the U.S. Civil War. Broadcasting sense of "a device to continuously check on the technical quality of a transmission" (1931) led to special sense of "a TV screen displaying the picture from a particular camera."
1818, "to guide;" 1924, "to check for quality" (originally especially of radio signals), from monitor (n.). General sense from 1944. Related: Monitored; monitoring.
monitor mon·i·tor (mŏn'ĭ-tər)
n.
A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system. v. mon·i·tored, mon·i·tor·ing, mon·i·tors
monitor A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen. Monitors generally employ cathode-ray tubes or flat-panel displays to project the image. See Note at pixel. |