# Monitor

Monitor or monitor may refer to:

## Places

* Monitor, Alberta
* Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States
* Monitor, Kentucky
* Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community in the United States
* Monitor, Washington
* Monitor, Logan County, West Virginia
* Monitor, Monroe County, West Virginia
* Loope, California, formerly Monitor

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Monitor (Mar Novu), a DC comics character
* Monitors (DC Comics), a group of fictional comic book characters, who appear in books published by DC Comics

### Periodicals

* Monitor (magazine), a weekly newsmagazine published in Podgorica, Montenegro
* Monitor (Polish newspaper), an 18th-century Polish newspaper
* Concord Monitor, a daily newspaper in New Hampshire, United States
* The Monitor (Sydney), a biweekly newspaper published between 1826 and 1841
* Daily Monitor, a Ugandan newspaper

### Television

* Monitor (UK TV programme), a BBC arts programme which aired from 1958 to 1965
* Monitor (U.S. TV program), a 1983–1984 American newsmagazine television program that aired on NBC

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Monitor (radio program), an American radio program which aired on NBC radio from 1955 to 1975
* Monitor (band), an American punk rock band
* Monitor, a 2006 album by Volován
** "Monitor", the title song, also covered by Ximena Sariñana for her album Mediocre
* Monitor, a 1975 work by English video artist Stephen Partridge
* Monitor, a Czech record label sold to EMI Czech Republic in 1994
* The Christian Science Monitor, an international news organization founded in 1908, that publishes self-titled periodicals

## Brands and enterprises

* Monitor, a trade name for Methamidophos, a phosphorus based pesticide
* Monitor Deloitte, a management consulting firm

## Computing and technology

* Monitor (synchronization), an approach to synchronize two or more computer tasks that use a shared resource
* Computer monitor, an output device that displays information in pictorial form
* In-ear monitors, earpieces for performers on stage or in a studio
* Machine code monitor, program allowing users to view or change memory locations on a computer
* Resident monitor, an early primitive operating system
* Stage monitors or foldback (sound engineering), loudspeakers for performers on stage
* Studio monitor, professional grade loudspeaker designed specifically for audio production and engineering
* System monitor, a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system
* Virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, is a software that creates and runs virtual machines, allowing multiple operating system images to run simultaneously on a single piece of hardware
* Firefox Monitor, email monitoring application (see Firefox version history)

## Healthcare

* Monitor (NHS), a former regulator for health services in England
* Monitor, a person who performs self-monitoring
* Clinical monitor or clinical research associate, a health-care professional who works in monitoring of clinical trials

## Ships

* Monitor (warship), a heavily armed warship design preceding the battleship, named for the USS Monitor
* Breastwork monitor, a type of turret ship with a raised superstructure and higher freeboard than the first monitors
* List of breastwork monitors of the Royal Navy
* List of Russian and Soviet monitors
* River monitor, a type of warship designed for fighting on inland waterways
* USS Monitor, a shallow-draught turret ship of the United States Navy

## Water jets

* Monitor, a pressurised water jet used in hydraulic mining
* Fire monitor, a water jet used for firefighting

## Other meanings

* Monitor (architecture), a subsidiary roof structure
* Hall monitor, a student who supervises the corridors of a school
* Monitor lizard, any lizard of the family Varanidae (once believed to warn of crocodile attacks)
* Saint Monitor, bishop of Orléans