monitoring
noun
Simple meaning
Watching or checking something closely and regularly over time
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈmɑnətɚɪŋ
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Definition
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noun
The carrying out of surveillance on, or continuous or regular observation of, an environment or people in order to detect signals, movements or changes of state or quality.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
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Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The carrying out of surveillance on, or continuous or regular observation of, an environment or people in order to detect signals, movements or changes of state or quality.
Used this way, monitoring is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use monitoring
- “The monitoring of enemy communications plays an important role in war times.”noun
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Word Family
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Compound terms
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Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor.
A program that observes and regulates and controls or verifies the operations of a data-processing system.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- pollutionnoun
- detectionnoun
- surveillancenoun
- implementationnoun
- monitorverb
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