Usually means: Device for displaying visual output.
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word monitor:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. monitor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. monitor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monitor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monitor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Monitor, monitor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Monitor, monitor: Wordnik
  7. monitor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Monitor, monitor: Wiktionary
  9. monitor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. monitor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. monitor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. monitor: Dictionary.com
  13. monitor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. monitor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Monitor (Arrowverse), Monitor (BBC TV), Monitor (NBC Radio), Monitor (NBC radio), Monitor (NHS), Monitor (Polish newspaper), Monitor (U.S. TV series), Monitor (UK TV series), Monitor (architecture), Monitor (comics), Monitor (magazine), Monitor (radio program), Monitor (ship), Monitor (synchronization), Monitor (warship), Monitor, The Monitor (Montreal), The Monitor (Texas), The Monitor (album), The Monitor (comics), The Monitor (film), The Monitor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Monitor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. monitor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. monitor: Rhymezone
  19. Monitor (m), monitor, monitor, monitor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. monitor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Monitor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. monitor: Free Dictionary
  23. monitor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. monitor: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. monitor: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. monitor: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Monitor: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. MONITOR: Accounting Glossary
  3. Monitor: bizterms.net
  4. Monitor: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. monitor: Legal dictionary
  7. Monitor: Financial dictionary
  8. Monitor: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  9. Monitor: Radio Programming and Production
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. monitor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. monitor: Netlingo
  3. Monitor, monitor: CCI Computer
  4. monitor: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Monitor: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. Monitor (lizard), Monitor (zoology), monitor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  4. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. monitor: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. monitor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. monitor: The Folk File
  2. monitor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See monitored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
noun:  A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
noun:  (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
noun:  A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
noun:  (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
noun:  (computing, obsolete) The command line interface of an operating system.
noun:  (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in British) A student leader in a class.
noun:  (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. [from 1862]
noun:  A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae.
noun:  A bus monitor.
noun:  (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 several tools successively into position.
noun:  A monitor nozzle.
noun:  (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
noun:  (archaic) An ironclad.
verb:  (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
noun:  Any of several publications e.g. the "Christian Science Monitor".
noun:  (Freemasonry) A text of works or instruction which are not secret and may be written e.g. "Indiana Monitor and Freemasons' Guide".
noun:  The USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship of its type.

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