0 present participle of monitor
1 to watch and check a situation carefully for a period of time in order to discover something about it:
A 1200-strong military force will be on hand to monitor the ceasefire.
We need to monitor the transaction of smaller deals.
They'll use ultrasound to monitor her ovaries to see if they're responding to the treatment.
The babies in this unit have various devices attached to them that monitor the vital signs.
During the 1960s it became a petrochemical complex, and by the 1980s environmental monitoring revealed high levels of organic contamination in the groundwater.
The constant represents the expected project yield in capital (per unit invested), net of monitoring costs.
Trimedlure emitters from the barrier and the monitoring traps were replaced every two months and tri-pack attractants and dichlorvos strips were replaced every 45 days.
Along with fundoscopy, individual color spaces may serve for monitoring early functional changes and thereby to support a treatment strategy.