monitor (navy) - Roles or positions

A floating gun platform, lying low above the waterline, moving at slow speed. It achieved relatively high fire-power while offering a small target silhouette. Used mainly for coastal bombardment, modern weapons have made it obsolete. The name derives from the USS Monitor, built by the Unionists in the American Civil War (1861–5), which fought a famous but inconclusive action against CSS Virginia (previouly Merrimac); both were ironclads. Monitor, capable of only 4 knots, and unseaworthy, eventually foundered off Cape Hatteras 9 months after the initial action.

A medical monitor. A studio monitor A video monitor, a television-like device used in studio, lab or test environments.

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A Hall monitor, one who patrols the hall of a school. A monitor, a type of ship based on the USS Monitor and built by several navies for riverine and coastal defense in the 1860s and 1870s. A river monitor, the strongest type of river warships. Monitor (NBC Radio), a popular NBC radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975. Monitor (NHS), a British organisation that regulates the NHS Foundation Trusts. Monitor (comics), a DC Comics character from Crisis on Infinite Earths. A device for channeling water under high pressure against a surface, also known as a water cannon, was used in hydraulic mining in California, and is used in china clay pits. Monitor (band), an underground No Wave band from New York. Monitor lizards, 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 the regulatory body for NHS Foundation Trusts in the United Kingdom. Monitor (synchronization), a means for synchronising concurrent access in computer programs. Monitor, a village in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. See The Monitor and Monitoring for other possible meanings.

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