Checkpoint

Quick meaning: Checkpoint is a noun meaning A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

Meaning

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

More Meanings

1. (video games) A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart.
2. (biology) A biological control mechanism ensuring correct progression through the cell cycle.
3. To set a checkpoint.
4. (computing) A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.

Example Sentences

The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.

After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.

You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.

This is not a videogame, this is real life! People get hurt! There is no restart from last checkpoint.

Word Forms

• checkpoints
• checkpointing
• checkpointed

Synonyms for checkpoint

Depending on context, synonyms include savepoint.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crossing, sentry, barrier, gate, points, screening.

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