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MONITORING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it)

Example:

the monitoring of enemy communications plays an important role in war times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

observance; observation; watching (the act of observing; taking a patient look)

Derivation:

monitor (keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb monitor

Credits

 Context examples: 

Attaining optimal metabolic control may include treatment and monitoring of acute and chronic complications.

(Diabetes Management Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

The partnership is part of the second stage of a research project in Russia, where an existing telescope is already dedicated to space debris monitoring.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

The completed action of observing, monitoring, measuring or otherwise qualitatively or quantitatively gathering data or information about one or more aspects of a subject's, study subject's or experimental unit's physiologic or psychologic state.

(Performed Observation, NCI Thesaurus)

The completed action of observing, monitoring, measuring or otherwise qualitatively or quantitatively gathering data or information about one or more aspects of a subject, study subject, experimental unit, or product.

(Performed Observation, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The finding obtained by observing, monitoring, measuring or otherwise qualitatively or quantitatively recording one or more aspects of physiologic or psychologic processes.

(Performed Observation Result, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

An instrument for blood pressure monitoring consisting of a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope to hear blood flow.

(Auscultatory Blood Pressure Monitor, NCI Thesaurus)

An organization with monitoring, regulatory, or supervisory authority over biomedical research at the local, regional, national, or international level.

(Oversight Authority, NCI Thesaurus)

This tells me if you have been working on or monitoring a creative project, it will come out well.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)