| 释义 |
monitor /monˈi-tər/ noun- A person employed to supervise
- A senior pupil who assists in school discipline, or any other pupil with a special responsibility
- A person who admonishes
- An adviser
- A detector for radioactivity
- An instrument used in a production process to keep a variable quantity within prescribed limits by transmitting a controlling signal
- A screen in a television studio showing the picture being transmitted
- The screen in any set of audiovisual equipment
- An apparatus for testing transmission in electrical communication
- A low iron-clad with revolving gun-turrets (from an American ship so named, the first of its kind, 1862; historical)
- A genus (Varanus) of very large lizards of Africa, Asia, and Australia (from a belief that they give warning of the presence of a crocodile)
- A backboard (obsolete)
- A screen or visual display unit (computing)
transitive verb- To act as monitor to
- To check (eg the body and clothing of people working with radioactive materials) for radioactivity
- To track, or to control (an aeroplane, guided missile, etc)
- To watch, check, supervise
intransitive verb (radio)- To tap onto a communication circuit, usu in order to ascertain that the transmission is that desired
- To listen to foreign broadcasts in order to obtain news, code messages, etc
ORIGIN: Ety as for monition monitorial /-ōrˈ or -örˈ/ adjective Relating to a monitor monitoˈrially adverb monˈitorship noun monˈitress noun A female monitor |