Word.ws English Dictionary

monitoring

US/ˈmɑnɪtɚɪŋ/

monitoring is the present participle and gerund of monitor.

Meaning of monitor

Verb

monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)

  1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
    • Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide, World Health Organization, page 134
    Synonyms:
    oversee, supervise, track

See all 17 meanings of monitor

Noun

monitoring (usually uncountable, plural monitorings)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • NR is already 'on the case' here - its man in Inverness was trained some time ago (at his request, incidentally - good man!) in drone monitoring, which enables much longer aerial patrols than are possible on foot.2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4

Forms of monitoring

pluralmonitorings

Origin of monitoring

From monitor + -ing.

Words formed from monitoring

Phrases with monitoring

Questions about monitoring

What does monitoring mean?
Monitoring means 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.
What is monitoring the present participle and gerund of?
Monitoring is the present participle and gerund of monitor.
What part of speech is monitoring?
Monitoring is a noun.
How do you pronounce monitoring?
Monitoring is pronounced /ˈmɑnɪtɚɪŋ/ (US).
What is the plural of monitoring?
The plural of monitoring is monitorings.

Words near monitoring in the dictionary

  1. monitorer
  2. monitorers
  3. monitorial
  4. monitorially
  5. monitories
  6. monitoring
  7. monitorings
  8. monitorisation
  9. monitorisations
  10. monitorization
  11. monitorizations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monitoring (page history and authors); monitor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-monitoring.wav.

Cite this entry: “monitoring.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/monitoring. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.