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noun

monitoring

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with monitoring, each labelled with its topic.

  • Continuous monitoring during the night showed that her oxygen dipped only when she slept on her back.

    Medicine

  • Volunteer monitoring of the creek has produced twelve years of temperature readings that no agency would have funded.

    Environment

  • Automated monitoring flagged the transfer within seconds because the amount was far outside the account's usual pattern.

    Finance

  • Server monitoring caught the memory leak at three in the morning, long before any customer noticed a slowdown.

    Technology

  • Careful monitoring of the volcano recorded a thousand tiny tremors in the week before the summit began to swell.

    Science

  • Heart rate monitoring during the runs showed she was going too hard on easy days and too easy on hard ones.

    Fitness

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