checkpoint
IPA: tʃˈɛkpɔɪnt
noun
- 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
- (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.
- (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.
verb
- To set a checkpoint.
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Examples of "checkpoint" in Sentences
- Checkpoints were frequent during the war.
- The checkpoint was curiously asymmetrical.
- The next layer is the screening checkpoint itself.
- In that case, the arrow points to the nearest checkpoint.
- The woman gave birth to a stillborn baby at the checkpoint.
- The cordon is enforced through the use of police checkpoints.
- But bear in mind that the article is not about the checkpoints.
- The battering ram is exhibited in the Checkpoint Charlie museum.
- The checkpoint is adjacent to the town of Hizma and is named for it.
- The border checkpoint building was heavily damaged in the crossfire.