monitor

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  1. noun One that admonishes, cautions, or reminds, especially with respect to matters of conduct.
  2. noun A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.
  3. noun A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system.
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  • Your monitor should be a comfortable distance away (just over arm's length) and the top of the screen should be roughly at eye level (so you look very slightly down at most of the screen - thus stretching out your neck rather than scrunching it).2.
  • The lights on his monitor were all red and blinking, the only thing moving in the room except the super's shadow on the wall. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • Ken then pressed play on the VCR, and in front of me on the monitor was a video of Rick Shapiro doing his act. —  GaspingforAirtime
  • In an ideal situation, the monitor will be a little higher than the keyboard. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • It's a panasonic bd-202 and the monitor is a new ACER P243Wd, graphic board is QuadroFx 3400. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
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  1. Latin, from monēre, to warn; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French moniteur = Spanish monitor = Italian monitore, from Latin monitor, one who reminds or admonishes, from monere, past participle monitus, remind, admonish: see monish.
 

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