Monitor or monitor may refer to:

Places

Monitor, Alberta Monitor is a hamlet (place), hamlet in east-central Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 4. Monitor is located on Alberta Highway 41, Highway 41, approximately north of Medicine Hat. History Previously an incorporated municipality, Monitor ...

Monitor, Indiana Monitor is a small unincorporated community in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the ...

, town in the United States *

Monitor, Kentucky Monitor is an unincorporated community located in Trimble County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It b ...

Monitor, Oregon Monitor, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States It is about northeast of the city of Mt. Angel, on Butte Creek in the Willamette Valley. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area. ''Oregon ...

, unincorporated community in the United States *

Monitor, Washington Monitor is a small unincorporated community in Chelan County, Washington, United States. It is situated along the Wenatchee River about 8 miles upstream from its junction with the Columbia River in the fertile Wenatchee Valley. Monitor is part ...

Monitor, Logan County, West Virginia Monitor is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, Logan County, West Virginia, United States. Monitor is located along Island Creek (West Virginia), Island Creek and West Virginia Route 44, south-southwes ...

Monitor, Monroe County, West Virginia Monitor is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographer ...

Loope, California Loope (formerly, Loopeville and Monitor) is an unincorporated community in Alpine County, California. It is located on Monitor Creek Monitor or monitor may refer to: Places * Monitor, Alberta * Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States * M ...

, formerly Monitor

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Monitor (Mar Novu) The Monitor or Over-Monitor, also known as Mar Novu, is a fictional character created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez as one of the main characters of DC Comics' ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' Limited series (comics), limited seri ...

, a DC comics character *

Monitors (DC Comics) The Monitors are a group of fictional comic book Character (arts), characters, who appear in books published by DC Comics. They are based on the Monitor (Mar Novu), Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, two characters created by comic book writer Marv ...

, a group of fictional comic book characters, who appear in books published by DC Comics

Periodicals

* ''Monitor'' (magazine), a weekly newsmagazine published in Podgorica, Montenegro * ''Monitor'' (Polish newspaper), an 18th-century Polish newspaper * ''

Concord Monitor The ''Concord Monitor'' is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire. It also covers surrounding towns in Merrimack County, most of Belknap County, as well as portions of Grafton, Rockingham and Hillsborough counti ...

'', a daily newspaper in New Hampshire, United States * ''The Monitor'' (Sydney), a biweekly newspaper published between 1826 and 1841 * ''

Daily Monitor The ''Daily Monitor'' is a Ugandan independent daily newspaper. Its name is shared by the ''Saturday Monitor'' and ''Sunday Monitor'', which are also published by Monitor Publications Limited. ''Daily Monitor'' averaged a daily circulation of 24,2 ...

'', a Ugandan newspaper

Television

* ''Monitor'' (UK TV programme), a BBC arts programme which aired from 1958 to 1965 * ''Monitor'' (U.S. TV program), a 1983–1984 American newsmagazine television program that aired on NBC

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Monitor'' (radio program), an American radio program which aired on NBC radio from 1955 to 1975 *

Monitor (band) World Imitation Productions (WImP) was an interdisciplinary art and music collective active during the early years of punk in Los Angeles, California, through the late 1970s and early 1980s (c. 1977–1982). Their work involved the creation of x ...

, an American punk rock band * ''Monitor'', a 1975 work by English video artist

Stephen Partridge Stephen Partridge (born 1953) is an English video artist

* Monitor, a Czech record label sold to

EMI Czech Republic Warner Music Czech Republic (formerly EMI Czech Republic and Parlophone Czech Republic) is a record label based in the Czech Republic. The company was founded under the name Monitor in 1990. EMI purchased the label in 1994 and maintained it un ...

in 1994 * ''

The Christian Science Monitor ''The Christian Science Monitor'' (''CSM''), commonly known as ''The Monitor'', is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition. It was founded in 1908 as a daily newspaper ...

'', an international news organization founded in 1908, that publishes self-titled periodicals

Brands and enterprises

* Monitor, a trade name for

Methamidophos Methamidophos, trade name "Monitor," is an organophosphate insecticide. Crops grown with the use of methamidophos include potatoes and some Latin American rice. Many nations have used methamidophos on crops, including developed nations such as Spa ...

, a phosphorus based pesticide *

Monitor Deloitte Monitor Deloitte is the multinational strategy consulting practice of Deloitte Consulting. Monitor Deloitte specializes in providing strategy consultation services to the senior management of major organizations and governments. It helps its clien ...

, a management consulting firm

Computing and technology

Monitor (synchronization) In concurrent programming, a monitor is a synchronization construct that allows threads to have both mutual exclusion and the ability to wait (block) for a certain condition to become false. Monitors also have a mechanism for signaling other th ...

, an approach to synchronize two or more computer tasks that use a shared resource *

Computer monitor A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form. A discrete monitor comprises a visual display, support electronics, power supply, housing, electrical connectors, and external user controls. The di ...

, an output device that displays information in pictorial form *

In-ear monitor In-ear monitors (IEMs) are devices used by musicians, audio engineers and audiophiles to listen to music or to hear a personal mix of vocals and stage instrumentation for live performance or recording studio mixing. They are also used by telev ...

s, earpieces for performers on stage or in a studio *

Machine code monitor A machine code monitor ( machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage. Some full-featured m ...

, program allowing users to view or change memory locations on a computer *

Resident monitor In computing, a resident monitor is a type of system software program that was used in many early computers from the 1950s to 1970s. It can be considered a precursor to the operating system. The name is derived from a program which is always pres ...

, an early primitive operating system * Stage monitors or

foldback (sound engineering) Foldback may refer to: *Foldback (power supply design), a current-limiting device in power amplifiers *Foldback (sound engineering) Foldback may refer to: * Foldback (power supply design), a current-limiting device in power amplifiers * Foldback (so ...

, loudspeakers for performers on stage *

Studio monitor Studio monitors are loudspeakers in speaker enclosures specifically designed for professional audio production applications, such as recording studios, filmmaking, television studios, radio studios and project or home studios, where accurate ...

, professional grade loudspeaker designed specifically for audio production and engineering *

System monitor A system monitor is a Computer hardware, hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system. Among the management issues regarding use of system monitoring tools are resource usage and privacy. ...

, a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system * Virtual machine monitor, or

hypervisor A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is calle ...

, is a software that creates and runs virtual machines, allowing multiple operating system images to run simultaneously on a single piece of hardware * Firefox Monitor, email monitoring application (see

Firefox version history Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser, first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new ...

)

Healthcare

Monitor (NHS) Monitor was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health, responsible between 2004 and 2016 for ensuring healthcare provision in NHS England was financially effective. It was the sector regulator for health services in En ...

, a former regulator for health services in England * Monitor, a person who performs

self-monitoring Self-monitoring, a concept introduced in the 1970s by Mark Snyder (psychologist), Mark Snyder, describes the extent to which people monitor their self-presentations, expressive behavior, and nonverbal affective displays. Snyder held that human bei ...

* Clinical monitor or

clinical research associate A clinical research associate (CRA), also called a clinical monitor or trial monitor, is a health-care professional who performs many activities related to medical research, particularly clinical trials. Clinical research associates work in vario ...

, a health-care professional who works in monitoring of clinical trials

Ships

Monitor (warship) A monitor is a relatively small warship which is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the First World War and with limited use in the Second World War ...

, a heavily armed warship design preceding the battleship, named for the USS ''Monitor'' *

Breastwork monitor A breastwork monitor was a modification of the monitor, a warship which was first built in the United States in 1861, designed by John Ericsson and distinguished by the first rotating gun turret, designed by Theodore Timby. The modified desig ...

, a type of turret ship with a raised superstructure and higher freeboard than the first monitors *

List of breastwork monitors of the Royal Navy The breastwork monitor was developed during the 1860s by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, as an improvement of the basic monitor design developed by John Ericsson during the American Civil War. Reed gave these ships a super ...

List of Russian and Soviet monitors This is a list of monitor (ship), monitors of the Imperial Russian Navy and Soviet Navy of Russia and the Soviet Union. Imperial Russian Navy *Uragan class monitor, ''Uragan'' class (1863) *Russian monitor Smerch, ''Smerch'' *Charodeika class monit ...

River monitor River monitors are military craft designed to patrol rivers. They are normally the largest of all riverine warships in river flotillas, and mount the heaviest weapons. The name originated from the US Navy's , which made her first appearance in ...

, a type of warship designed for fighting on inland waterways * , a shallow-draught turret ship of the United States Navy

Water jets

* Monitor, a pressurised water jet used in

hydraulic mining Hydraulic mining is a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment.Paul W. Thrush, ''A Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms'', US Bureau of Mines, 1968, p.560. In the placer mining of ...

Fire monitor A deluge gun, fire monitor, master stream or deck gun is an aimable controllable high-capacity water jet used for manual firefighting or automatic fire protection systems. Deluge guns are often designed to accommodate foam which has been injecte ...

, a water jet used for firefighting

Other meanings

Monitor (architecture) A monitor in architecture is a raised structure running along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof. The long sides of monitors usually contain clerestory windows or louvers to light or ventila ...

, a subsidiary roof structure * Hall monitor, a student who supervises the corridors of a school *

Monitor lizard Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus ''Varanus,'' the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also found in the Americas as an invasive species. About 80 species are recogn ...

, any lizard of the family Varanidae (once believed to warn of crocodile attacks)