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[ noun ] the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it)

Examples

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

Used in print

(Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network .

By monitoring , we mean some system of control over the types of information sent from the various centers .

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence .

This monitoring is necessary because , on a parade_ground , everyone can hear too_much , and without monitoring a confused social_event would develop .

Related terms

observation monitor

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