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MONITORING DEVICE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

monitor; monitoring device

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

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