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To monitor or monitoring generally means to be aware of the state of a system. Below are a couple of specific examples:

• to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time, using a monitor or measuring device of some sort:
  • Baby monitor, medical monitor, Heart rate monitor
  • Biomonitoring
  • Condition monitoring
  • Deformation monitoring
  • Election monitoring
  • Mining monitoring
  • Natural hazard monitoring
  • Network monitoring
  • Structural monitoring
  • Website monitoring
  • Futures monitoring, Media monitoring service
• to observe the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups (see surveillance)
• Monitoring competence at a task.
• Clinical monitoring for new medical drugs

See also

• monitor

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