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Monitoring vs Metering - What's the difference?

monitoring | metering |

As verbs the difference between monitoring and metering

is that monitoring is while metering is .

As nouns the difference between monitoring and metering

is that 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 while metering is (chiefly|us) the process of marking a stamp with a meter.

As an adjective metering is

used to meter something.

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.

    • metering

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metering

    Adjective

    (-)
  • used to meter something
    • The museum curator went to the shelf and pulled down an ancient metering device.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) the process of marking a stamp with a meter
  • (chiefly, US) the marking itself; franking

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