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, 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, 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 *

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'', 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 und ...

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, 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), 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 monitors, earpieces for performers on stage or in a studio * Machine code monitor, program allowing users to view or change memory locations on a computer * Resident monitor, an early primitive operating system * Stage monitors or foldback (sound engineering), loudspeakers for performers on stage * Studio monitor, professional grade loudspeaker designed specifically for audio production and engineering * System monitor, a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system * Virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, 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), a former regulator for health services in England * Monitor, a person who performs self-monitoring * 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 heavily armed warship design preceding the battleship, named for the USS ''Monitor'' * Breastwork monitor, 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 * River monitor, 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 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)