In some places, notably America, that means monitoring the brain's electrical chatter to make sure the whole organ has died.
More often than not, that doesn't mean monitoring the hallways at school; it means monitoring the hallways at home.
Currently, men with low-risk localised prostate cancer are put under "active surveillance", which means monitoring the disease but providing no treatment unless it becomes more severe.
And just as being involved with food consumption means both monitoring content and actually eating together, being involved with media consumption means monitoring content and sometimes actually playing games together.
Between these two Middle Eastern oil economies, peaceful civilian nuclear energy means monitoring and money-making markets.
It means monitoring what she is doing on the Internet and watching on TV.
That means monitoring your blood pressure at various times during the day so that you can see if there are times when your pressure spikes.
We've finally come to realise privacy is a precious commodity, which means monitoring closely who can see what about us.
That could mean monitoring pricing across services, recommending the right cloud configuration for each one and optimizing resource allocation across services.
Diet and lifestyle alone is not the answer, it's a disease that needs treatment, which means monitoring of hormones and surgery.
