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語源

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/
• (cot–caught merger, General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ], /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/, [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ]
• (cot–caught merger, Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tɚ/, [ˈmɒn.ɪ.ɾɚ]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tə/, [ˈmɔn.ɪ.ɾə]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmɒn.ə.tə/, [ˈmɔ̟n.ə.ɾə]

名詞

monitor (plural monitors)

1. 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, To My Cigar:

     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.

2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
3. (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.

4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
5. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.

   a machine code monitor

6. (computing, dated) The command line interface of an operating system.
7. (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in British) A student leader in a class.
   • 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:

     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, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:

     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!

   • (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election‎, Hong Kong ICAC Comics:

     He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on.

8. (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]
9. A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
10. (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.
11. A monitor nozzle.
12. (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
    • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

      You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.

    • 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:

      There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]

13. (archaic) An ironclad.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Thai: มอนิเตอร์ (mɔɔ-ní-dtəə)

参考

• display
• screen
• VDU

動詞

monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)

1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
   • 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide‎, World Health Organization, page 134:

     Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.

   • 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers‎, volumes 23-373, page 239:

     During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.

   • 2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,

     A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.

   • 2023 July 7, “UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The NOAA monitors global temperatures and records on a monthly and an annual basis, not daily. […] Various parts of the world have been experiencing heatwaves and on Thursday the EU’s climate monitoring service said the world had experienced its hottest June on record last month.

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   a device to monitor people’s brain activity

同意語

• oversee, supervise, track

派生語

Further reading

• “monitor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “monitor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• montoir, tromino

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɔ.nɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɔː.ni.tor]

名詞

monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

1. counselor, preceptor
2. prompter, warner

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• Catalan: monitor
• English: monitor
• German: Monitor
• Italian: monitore
• Portuguese: monitor
• Russian: монито́р (monitór)
• Spanish: monitor

参照

• “monitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “monitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers