monitor English
Alternative forms
* monitour (obsolete)
Noun
( en noun)
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
* 1829 , Charles Sprague,
- And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
- A monitor , though still;
- Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
- Beyond the preacher's skill.
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- The information flashed up on the monitor .
(computing) A program for viewing and editing.
- a machine code monitor
(British) A student leader in a class.
* 1871 , ,
- So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors , who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
* 1881 , , Chapter X,
- But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors !
(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
(archaic) An ironclad.
A monitor lizard.
(obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
* Francis Bacon
- You need not be a monitor to the king.
(engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
Related terms
* admonition
* admonish
* admonitory
* monition
* premonition
Derived terms
* hall monitor
* hallway monitor
* monitor lizard
* water monitor
See also
* display
* screen
* VDU
Verb
( en verb)
To watch over; to guard.
* 1993 , H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide , World Health Organization, page 134 ,
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
* 1997 , Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers , Volumes 23-373, page 239 ,
- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
* 2002', Mark Baker, Garry Smith, ''GridRM: A Resource '''Monitoring Architecture for the Grid'', in Manish Parashar (editor), ''Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop , Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268 ,
- A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored' and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance ' monitoring , analysis, prediction and tuning.
Synonyms
* oversee, supervise, track
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estimate English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)
Noun
( en noun)
A rough calculation or guess.
(construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably cost.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=3 citation
, passage=“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”}}
Synonyms
* estimation
* appraisal
Derived terms
* ballpark estimate
Verb
To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
* {{quote-book, year=1965, author=Ian Hacking, title=Logic of Statistical Inference, passage=I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.
citation
* '>citation
To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
* John Locke
- It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
* J. C. Shairp
- It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.
Synonyms
* appraise
* guess
Derived terms
* estimable
* underestimate
* overestimate
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