monitoring

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 20.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of monitor
2. 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.

Similar words

ride herd on supervise proctor reminder admonisher varan monitor lizard surveillance vigilante censorship

Often followed by

of and the system is in for systems program

Word family

monitor monitored monitors