Monitor or monitor may refer to:

Places

* Monitor, Alberta * 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, Logan County, West Virginia * 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. The character began ...

, a DC comics character *

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

, 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 * Monitor, a Czech record label sold to EMI Czech Republic in 1994 * '' The Christian Science Monitor'', 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, 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)

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 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 * 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 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)