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.

Noun

(cameras)

A device for taking still or moving pictures or s.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.}}

(video games) The game or simulation.

* 2003 , Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds

If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.

* 2006 , Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete

I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.