Monitor

Monitor or monitor may refer to:

Places

 * Monitor, Alberta
 * 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

Fictional characters

 * Monitor (Mar Novu), a DC comics character
 * Monitors (DC Comics), 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, 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), 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, 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
 * USS Monitor, a shallow-draught turret ship of the United States Navy

Water jets

 * Monitor, a pressurised water jet used in hydraulic mining
 * 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, any lizard of the family Varanidae (once believed to warn of crocodile attacks)