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

Arts, entertainment, and media

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
  • 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

Broadcasting

  • Monitor (radio program), an American radio program which aired on NBC radio from 1955 to 1975
  • Monitor (British TV programme), a BBC arts programme which aired from 1958 to 1965
  • 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 in 1994
  • Monitor (band), an American punk rock band
  • Monitor, a 2006 album by Volován
  • "Monitor", the title song, also covered by Ximena Sariñana for her album Mediocre

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Monitor (film), a 2026 American horror film
  • Monitor, a 1975 work by English video artist Stephen Partridge

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, 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
  • Fire monitor, a water jet used for firefighting

Other meanings

  • Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, 1862 battle of the American Civil War
  • 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)
  • Saint Monitor, bishop of Orléans

See also

  • Monitoring (disambiguation)
  • The Monitor (disambiguation)
  • The Monitors (disambiguation)
  • Moniteur (disambiguation)