# Monitor

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**Monitor** or **monitor** may refer to:

## Places

- [Monitor, Alberta](/source/Monitor,_Alberta)
- [Monitor, Indiana](/source/Monitor,_Indiana), town in the United States
- [Monitor, Kentucky](/source/Monitor,_Kentucky)
- [Monitor, Oregon](/source/Monitor,_Oregon), unincorporated community in the United States
- [Monitor, Washington](/source/Monitor,_Washington)
- [Monitor, Logan County, West Virginia](/source/Monitor,_Logan_County,_West_Virginia)
- [Monitor, Monroe County, West Virginia](/source/Monitor,_Monroe_County,_West_Virginia)
- [Loope, California](/source/Loope,_California), formerly Monitor

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Fictional characters

- [Monitor (Mar Novu)](/source/Monitor_(Mar_Novu)), a DC comics character
- [Monitors (DC Comics)](/source/Monitors_(DC_Comics)), a group of fictional comic book characters, who appear in books published by DC Comics

### Periodicals

- [*Monitor* (magazine)](/source/Monitor_(magazine)), a weekly newsmagazine published in Podgorica, Montenegro
- [*Monitor* (Polish newspaper)](/source/Monitor_(Polish_newspaper)), an 18th-century Polish newspaper
- *[Concord Monitor](/source/Concord_Monitor)*, a daily newspaper in New Hampshire, United States
- [*The Monitor* (Sydney)](/source/The_Monitor_(Sydney)), a biweekly newspaper published between 1826 and 1841
- *[Daily Monitor](/source/Daily_Monitor)*, a Ugandan newspaper
- *[The Christian Science Monitor](/source/The_Christian_Science_Monitor)*, an international news organization founded in 1908, that publishes self-titled periodicals
- *Monitor*, a magazine of the Victorian Herpetological Society in Victoria, Australia, formerly edited by [Raymond Hoser](/source/Raymond_Hoser)

### Broadcasting

- [*Monitor* (radio program)](/source/Monitor_(radio_program)), an American radio program which aired on NBC radio from 1955 to 1975
- [*Monitor* (British TV programme)](/source/Monitor_(British_TV_programme)), a BBC arts programme which aired from 1958 to 1965
- [*Monitor* (American TV program)](/source/Monitor_(American_TV_program)), a 1983–1984 American newsmagazine television program that aired on NBC

### Music

- Monitor, a Czech record label sold to [EMI Czech Republic](/source/EMI_Czech_Republic) in 1994
- [Monitor (band)](/source/Monitor_(band)), an American punk rock band
- *Monitor*, a 2006 album by [Volován](/source/Volov%C3%A1n) - "Monitor", the title song, also covered by Ximena Sariñana for her album *[Mediocre](/source/Mediocre_(album))*

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

- [*Monitor* (film)](/source/Monitor_(film)), a 2026 American horror film
- *Monitor*, a 1975 work by English video artist [Stephen Partridge](/source/Stephen_Partridge)

## Brands and enterprises

- Monitor, a trade name for [Methamidophos](/source/Methamidophos), a phosphorus based pesticide
- [Monitor Deloitte](/source/Monitor_Deloitte), a management consulting firm

## Computing and technology

- [Monitor (synchronization)](/source/Monitor_(synchronization)), an approach to synchronize two or more computer tasks that use a shared resource
- [Computer monitor](/source/Computer_monitor), an output device that displays information in pictorial form
- [In-ear monitors](/source/In-ear_monitor), earpieces for performers on stage or in a studio
- [Machine code monitor](/source/Machine_code_monitor), program allowing users to view or change memory locations on a computer
- [Resident monitor](/source/Resident_monitor), an early primitive operating system
- [Stage monitors](/source/Stage_monitor), loudspeakers for performers on stage
- [Studio monitor](/source/Studio_monitor), professional grade loudspeaker designed specifically for audio production and engineering
- [System monitor](/source/System_monitor), a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system
- Virtual machine monitor, or [hypervisor](/source/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](/source/Firefox_version_history))

## Healthcare

- [Monitor (NHS)](/source/Monitor_(NHS)), a former regulator for health services in England
- Monitor, a person who performs [self-monitoring](/source/Self-monitoring)
- Clinical monitor or [clinical research associate](/source/Clinical_research_associate), a health-care professional who works in monitoring of clinical trials

## Ships

- [Monitor (warship)](/source/Monitor_(warship)), a heavily armed warship design preceding the battleship, named for the USS *Monitor*
- [Breastwork monitor](/source/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](/source/List_of_breastwork_monitors_of_the_Royal_Navy)
- [List of Russian and Soviet monitors](/source/List_of_Russian_and_Soviet_monitors)
- [River monitor](/source/River_monitor), a type of warship designed for fighting on inland waterways
- [USS *Monitor*](/source/USS_Monitor), a shallow-draught turret ship of the United States Navy

## Water jets

- Monitor, a pressurised water jet used in [hydraulic mining](/source/Hydraulic_mining)
- [Fire monitor](/source/Fire_monitor), a water jet used for firefighting

## Other meanings

- [Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack](/source/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads), 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- [Monitor (architecture)](/source/Monitor_(architecture)), a subsidiary roof structure
- [Hall monitor](/source/Hall_monitor), a student who supervises the corridors of a school
- [Monitor lizard](/source/Monitor_lizard), any lizard of the family Varanidae (once believed to warn of crocodile attacks)
- [Saint Monitor](/source/Saint_Monitor), bishop of Orléans

## See also

- [Monitoring (disambiguation)](/source/Monitoring_(disambiguation))
- [The Monitor (disambiguation)](/source/The_Monitor_(disambiguation))
- [The Monitors (disambiguation)](/source/The_Monitors_(disambiguation))
- [Moniteur (disambiguation)](/source/Moniteur_(disambiguation))

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