monitor

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1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
3. A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
5. A program for viewing and editing.
6. (obsolete) The command line interface of an operating system.
7. A student leader in a class.
8. A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
9. A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae.
10. A bus monitor.
11. A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
12. A monitor nozzle.
13. (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
14. An ironclad.

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/ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/

Etîmolojî

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.