checkpoint
Noun
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Noun
checkpoint (plural checkpoints)
- 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
- The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
- A few days later I ford the Jordan River on a bus: Foot travel across Allenby Bridge checkpoint is strictly prohibited.
- (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.
- After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.
- (video games) 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.
- You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.
- French: point de contrôle
- German: Kontrollstelle, Kontrollpunkt
- Italian: posto di blocco
- Portuguese: ponto de controle (Brazil), ponto de controlo (Portugal), posto de controle (Brazil), posto de controlo (Portugal)
- Russian: КПП
- Spanish: puesto de control, alcabala f (Venezuela), retén m (Mexico), tranca f (Bolivia)
- French: point de sauvegarde
- Portuguese: ponto de verificação
- French: sauvegarde
- Portuguese: ponto de controle, ponto de verificação, ponto de checagem (Brazil)
checkpoint (checkpoints, present participle checkpointing; past and past participle checkpointed)
- To set a checkpoint.
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