checkpoint

Meanings

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
• 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.
• 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.

Origin

• check + point