monitorize

English

Etymology

monitor +‎ -ize

Verb

monitorize (third-person singular simple present monitorizes, present participle monitorizing, simple past and past participle monitorized)

1. (nonstandard) To watch carefully (by means of a monitor).
   • 1982, G. Niemeyer, Techniques in Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, page 55:

     The microsystem, interfaced to the instrumentation system, monitorizes computed values on digital display and analogic plotter.

   • 1989, R Pistelli, “Comparison of The Performance of Two Mini Peak Flow Meters”, in Respiration, volume 56, page 103:

     Two mini peak flow meters commonly used to monitorize the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) are compared to assess their agreement, precision and, with respect to a standard pneumotachygraph, accuracy.

2. Misspelling of monetarize.

Portuguese

Verb

monitorize

1. inflection of monitorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative