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, Monito ...

* Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States * Monitor, Kentucky * Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community in the United States * Monitor, Washington * Monitor, Logan County, West Virginia * Monitor, Monroe County, West Virginia * Loope, California, formerly Monitor

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Monitor (Mar Novu) The Monitor or Over-Monitor, also known as Mar Novu,''Justice League'' (vol. 4) #22 (June 2019) 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 Ear ...

, 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 Pére ...

, 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 count ...

'', 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 an independent daily newspaper in Uganda. Launched in 1992 as ''The Monitor'', it established itself as a leading voice critical of the government and is one of the two largest national newspapers, alongside the state-ow ...

'', 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 rock, punk in Los Angeles, California, through the late 1970s and early 1980s (c. 1977–1982). Their work involved the cr ...

, an American punk rock band * ''Monitor'', a 2006 album by Volován ** "Monitor", the title song, also covered by Ximena Sariñana for her album '' Mediocre'' * ''Monitor'', a 1975 work by English video artist

Stephen Partridge Stephen Partridge (born 1953) is an English video art, 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 both in Electronic publishing, electronic format and a weekly print edition. It was founded in 1908 ...

'', 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 prevents threads from concurrently accessing a shared object's state and allows them to wait for the state to change. They provide a mechanism for threads to temporarily gi ...

, 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 electronic visual display, visual display, support electronics, power supply, Housing (engineering), housing, electri ...

, an output device that displays information in pictorial form *

In-ear monitor An in-ear monitor (IEMs), in-ear, or colloquially earpiece is a listening device placed into the ear. More narrowly, the term in-ear monitor is defined as such a device used by musicians, audio engineers and audiophiles to listen to music or to ...

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 address, memory locations on a computer, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage. Some f ...

, 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 pre ...

, 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), a speaker used to direct sound to performers {{Disambig ...

, 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 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. Monitoring can tra ...

, 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 called ...

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

, 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, describes the extent to which people monitor their self-presentations, expressive behavior, and nonverbal affective displays. Snyder held that human beings generally differ in su ...

* 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 that 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 James Reed, Edward Reed, Director of Naval Construction, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, as an improvement of the basic monitor (warship), monitor design developed by John ...

* 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 In the United States, a hall monitor may be either a student volunteer who is charged with maintaining order in a school's corridors, or an adult paraprofessional staff member who carries out similar duties, sometimes in conjunction with other fu ...

, 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 West African Nile monitor, one species is also found in south America as an invasive species. A ...

, any lizard of the family Varanidae (once believed to warn of crocodile attacks) * Saint Monitor, bishop of Orléans