überwachte
Überwachte is a German form that can function as the feminine singular attributive form of the past participle überwacht, meaning "monitored" or "supervised," as in die überwachte Anlage (the monitored facility). It can also be the simple past tense form of the verb überwachen in the first or third person singular: ich überwachte, er überwachte (I monitored; he monitored). In ordinary usage, überwachte appears mainly in phrases describing something that has undergone monitoring, surveillance, or oversight, by an authority, organization, or system. The noun form related to the process is Überwachung (surveillance, monitoring). The prefix über- conveys a sense of coverage or extension, and wachen means to watch or guard.
Common contexts include information technology (überwachte Systeme, überwachte Dateien), industry and quality control (überwachte Prozesse, überwachte
Etymology: it derives from the verb überwachen, formed by the prefix über- (over, across) and wachen (to