preview monitor

British

noun

(in a television studio control room) a picture monitor used for inspecting a picture source before it is switched to transmission

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Each operator is assigned to a group—one in the morning and another in the afternoon—and will make shot selections from a preview monitor.

From Golf Digest

Camera One flashed onto the preview monitor with a view of the infield from behind home plate as the pitcher wound up.

From Time Magazine Archive

But then in the Yankees' half of the same inning the action crackled so furiously that Coyle, working with a surgeon's concentration, called his shots onto the air without time to set them up in the preview monitor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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