Checkpoint

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A point where a check is performed: Vehicles are stopped at several checkpoints along the border.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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
  • n. 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
  • n. A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to.
  • v. To set a checkpoint
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
    • Verb Form
    checkpointing    checkpoints   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stop   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    roadblock    milestone    patrol    eyewitness    minefield   
     
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