monitive
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (linguistics) A mood implying an unpleasant or undesirable future consequence.Examples: "Maidu, too has a distinct combination of mood and aspect suffixes for a category labeled the 'monitive optative'."; "Maidu, a language of northern California, shows a comparable set of inflectional mood suffixes: an indicative -'æ, an interrogative -ḱade, and intentive (Ø), a monitive -y?y for warnings, a hortative -á, a present imperative -pi, and an absent imperative -padá for actions to be carried out at a later time, in the absence of the speaker."; "The temporal adverb gero 'afterward' (section 20.1.2.1) can occur as a monitive particle in imperative, jussive, and optative sentences."
2. (ergonomics) Having a person-machine relationship in which the machine performs a largely automated role with the person serving primarily the monitor the machine and ensure that it stays within specified bounds.Examples: "The advantages of a monitive system for a reliable system in preplanned situations could be preserved in connection with this demand if only the local and temporal borders are determined by a machine within which the operator has to hold the dimensions to be influenced of the system."; "But also some human properties are important for the decision man or machine: the control and supervisory task of a monitive system are characterized by monotony."; "The engine failure thus leads to a change in task demands from monitive surveillance to more active participation and exertion of control over the system as the pilot has to compensate fo the lack of thrust by the failed engine (Günebak, 2010)."
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