MONITORING DEVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monitoring device mean? 

• MONITORING DEVICE (noun)
  The noun MONITORING DEVICE has 1 sense:

1. display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor

  Familiarity information: MONITORING DEVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONITORING DEVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

monitor; monitoring device

Hypernyms ("monitoring device" is a kind of...):

display; video display (an electronic device that represents information in visual form)

Meronyms (parts of "monitoring device"):

cathode-ray oscilloscope; CRO; oscilloscope; scope (electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monitoring device"):

computer monitor (a device that displays signals on a computer screen)

Holonyms ("monitoring device" is a part of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): surgeon, monitoring device, performing laboratory

(Performer Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

EXAMPLE(S): surgeon, performing laboratory, monitoring device

(Performed By, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)