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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONITOR (from See also:Lat. monere, to warn, advise)  , an advisor or counsellor, one who warns another See also:person as to his course of See also:action, also used of things that are more or less personified, as See also:conscience . The word is chiefly applied to See also:senior pupils (also known as " prefects ") in some of the See also:great secondary See also:schools in See also:England; in See also:America to senior students in certain colleges to whom See also:special duties are assigned, particularly that of keeping See also:order; and also to See also:pupil teachers in See also:English elementary schools . It is used in a See also:general way of anything that gives warning, and in this sense is applied to a See also:lizard of the See also:family Monitoridae, or Varanidae, found in See also:Africa and See also:Australia, which is supposed to give warning of the approach of crocodiles . The name of See also:monitor was also given to a particular See also:kind of ironclad invented for the See also:American See also:navy by See also:Captain See also:John Ericsson (q.v.) in 1862, which had a very See also:low See also:freeboard and revolving See also:gun-turrets . The See also:letter of Ericsson to the assistant secretary of the navy, of the loth of See also:January 1862 (quoted in the See also:Century See also:Dictionary), gives the inventor's See also:reason for the name . " The impregnable and aggressive See also:character of this structure will admonish the leaders of the See also:Southern See also:Rebellion that the batteries on the See also:banks of their See also:rivers will no longer See also:present barriers to the entrance of the See also:Union forces . The ironclad intruder will thus prove a severe monitor to those leaders . . . ` See also:Downing See also:Street ' will hardly view with indifference this last ` See also:Yankee notion,' this monitor." It is also the name of an ironclad railway See also:truck used for carrying a big gun . In America the raised See also:part of the roof of a railway See also:carriage or See also:omnibus in which the See also:lights or ventilators are placed is known as a monitor roof or See also:top . In See also:mining the word is applied to a jointed nozzle which may be turned in all directions, and is used in See also:hydraulic mining .

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