A programming technique for managing access of parallel processes to shared resources while ensuring mutual exclusion: Monitor (synchronization)
ROLES OR POSITIONS
A Hall Monitor , one who patrols the hall of a school.
A Prefect , schoolboy or schoolgirl given special authority in some British schools, especially Public Schools
WARSHIPS
USS ''Monitor'' , the ironclad warship of the American civil war.
A Monitor , a type of ship based on the USS ''Monitor'' and built by several navies for coastal defense in the 1860s and 1870s . It reappeared in a different form during the First World War and lasted until the end of the Second World War
A River Monitor , the strongest type of river warships...
OTHER MEANINGS
Monitor (NBC Radio) , a popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975.
'' Monitor Magazine (Ottawa) '', a free Canadian computer related magazine distributed around the Ottawa area since August 1993.
A device for channeling water under high pressure against a surface, also known as a water cannon, was used in hydraulic mining in California.
Monitor Lizard s, a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).
A device (attached to the back of the child's neck) used for monitoring nearly every aspect of a child's life in the science fiction novel Ender's Game .
Monitor Group , a strategy consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
