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What is the difference between maintaining and monitoring?

maintaining | monitoring |

As nouns the difference between maintaining and monitoring

is that maintaining is the act of doing maintenance while monitoring is the act of listening, carrying out surveillance on, and/or recording the emissions of one's own or allied forces for the purpose of maintaining and improving procedural standards and security, or for reference, as applicable.

As verbs the difference between maintaining and monitoring

is that maintaining is present participle of lang=en while monitoring is present participle of lang=en.

maintaining

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of doing maintenance.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • monitoring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of listening, carrying out surveillance on, and/or recording the emissions of one's own or allied forces for the purpose of maintaining and improving procedural standards and security, or for reference, as applicable.
  • The act of listening, carrying out surveillance on, and/or recording of enemy emissions for intelligence purposes.
  • The act of detecting the presence of signals, such as electromagnetic radiation, sound, or visual signals, and the measurement thereof with appropriate measuring instruments.
  • The act of detecting the presence of radiation and the measurement thereof with radiation measuring instruments.