checkpoint

See also: Checkpoint

English

Etymology

From check +‎ point.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

checkpoint (plural checkpoints)

1. 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)[1]

     A few days later I ford the Jordan River on a bus: Foot travel across Allenby Bridge checkpoint is strictly prohibited.

2. (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.

3. (video games) A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart.

   Synonym: savepoint

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

   • 2010 March 8, 20:40, in Chuck Versus the Beard (Chuck), season 3, episode 9, spoken by Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi):

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

4. (biology) A biological control mechanism ensuring correct progression through the cell cycle.

Derived terms

• checkpoint protein
• immunocheckpoint
• internet checkpoint

Translations

point along a road or on a frontier

• Albanian: pikë kontrolli f
• Arabic: حَاجِز m (ḥājiz), نُقْطَة تَفْتِيش f (nuqṭat taftīš)

  South Levantine Arabic: حاجز m (ḥājez), محسوم (maḥsum)

• Armenian: անցակետ (hy) (ancʻaket)
• Azerbaijani: nəzarət-buraxılış məntəqəsi
• Belarusian: КПП m (KPP), кантро́льна-прапускны́ пункт m (kantrólʹna-prapuskný punkt), блакпо́ст m (blakpóst)
• Bengali: চেকপয়েন্ট (cekpoẏenṭo)
• Bulgarian: контро́лно-пропуска́телен пункт m (kontrólno-propuskátelen punkt)
• Burmese: စစ်ဆေးရေးဂိတ် (cachce:re:git)
• Catalan: control (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 檢查站 / 检查站 (gim² caa⁴ zaam⁶)

  Mandarin: 檢查站 / 检查站 (zh) (jiǎncházhàn)

• Czech: přechod (cs) m
• Danish: kontrolpost c, kontrolsted c, grænseovergang c (border crossing)
• Dutch: doorlaatpost f, grensovergang (nl) m (border crossing)
• Esperanto: kontrolejo
• Estonian: kontrollpunkt
• Finnish: tarkastuspiste
• French: point de contrôle m, poste-frontière (fr) m (border crossing)
• Georgian: საკონტროლო პუნქტი (saḳonṭrolo ṗunkṭi)
• German: Kontrollstelle (de) f, Kontrollpunkt (de) m, Grenzübergang (de) m (border crossing), Checkpoint (de) m
• Greek: σημείο ελέγχου n (simeío elénchou)
• Hebrew: נקודת ביקורת / נְקֻדַּת בִּקֹּרֶת (n'kudát bikóret), מַחְסוֹם (he) m (makhsóm)
• Hindi: सीमा नाका m (sīmā nākā)
• Hungarian: ellenőrző pont, ellenőrzési pont, (at a border) határátkelőhely (hu), határátkelő (hu)
• Icelandic: eftirlitsstöð f
• Italian: posto di blocco m
• Japanese: チェックポイント (ja) (chekkupointo), 検問所 (ja) (けんもんじょ, kenmonjo)
• Kazakh: бақылау-өткізу пункті (baqylau-ötkızu punktı), БӨП (BÖP)
• Khmer: ប៉ុស្តិ៍ត្រួតពិនិត្យ (pohtruətpinɨt)
• Korean: 검문소(檢問所) (geommunso), 체크포인트 (chekeupointeu)
• Kyrgyz: контролдук-өткөрмө пункт (kontrolduk-ötkörmö punkt), көзөмөл өткөрмө жайы (közömöl ötkörmö jayı)
• Latvian: kontrolpunkts m
• Lithuanian: kontrolės punktas m
• Macedonian: ко́нтролна то́чка f (kóntrolna tóčka)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хяналтын цэг (xjanaltyn ceg)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kontrollpost m, grenseovergang m (border crossing)

  Nynorsk: kontrollpost m

• Occitan: ponch de contraròtle, punt de contraròtle m
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ایسْت‌بازْرِسی (ist-bâzresi), ایسْت‌بازْرَسی (ist-bâzrasi)

• Polish: punkt kontrolny m, przejście (pl) n
• Portuguese: ponto de controle m (Brazil), ponto de controlo m (Portugal), posto de controle m (Brazil), posto de controlo m (Portugal)
• Romanian: punct de control (ro) n
• Russian: КПП (ru) m (KPP), контро́льно-пропускно́й пункт (ru) m (kontrólʹno-propusknój punkt), пункт про́пуска m (punkt própuska), блокпо́ст (ru) m (blokpóst)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: контролна тачка f, контролна точка f

  Latin: kontrolna tačka f, kontrolna točka f

• Slovak: priechod m
• Slovene: prehod m, kontrolna točka f
• Spanish: puesto de control m, alcabala (es) f (Venezuela), retén (es) m (Mexico), tranca (es) f (Bolivia)
• Swedish: checkpoint (sv) c, kontrollpunkt c, gränsövergång (sv) c (border crossing)
• Tagalog: himpilang siyasatan
• Tajik: гузаргох (guzargox)
• Thai: ด่านตรวจ (dàan-dtrùuat), จุดตรวจสอบ, จุดตรวจ (jùt-dtrùuat)
• Turkish: kontrol noktası
• Ukrainian: КПП (uk) m (KPP), контро́льно-пропускни́й пункт m (kontrólʹno-propusknýj punkt), блокпо́ст m (blokpóst)
• Uzbek: nazorat punkti
• Vietnamese: chốt kiểm soát, chốt (vi), cửa khẩu (vi)

computing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: kontrolpunkto
• Finnish: tarkastuspiste
• French: point de sauvegarde m
• Māori: wāhitaki
• Occitan: ponch de salvagarda m, punt de salvagarda m
• Portuguese: ponto de verificação m
• Russian: измери́тельная то́чка f (izmerítelʹnaja tóčka), то́чка прове́рки f (tóčka provérki), контро́льная то́чка f (kontrólʹnaja tóčka)
• Spanish: punto de control m

video games

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: kontrolní bod, checkpoint (slang)
• Finnish: tarkastuspiste
• French: sauvegarde (fr) f
• Polish: punkt kontrolny m
• Portuguese: ponto de controle m, ponto de verificação m, ponto de checagem m (Brazil), checkpoint (pt) m
• Spanish: punto de control m, punto de guardado m
• Swedish: checkpoint (sv) c, kontrollpunkt c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Verb

checkpoint (third-person singular simple present checkpoints, present participle checkpointing, simple past and past participle checkpointed)

1. To set a checkpoint.

Swedish

Noun

checkpoint c

1. A checkpoint

Declension

Declension of checkpoint

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	checkpoint	checkpoints
	definite	checkpointen	checkpointens
plural	indefinite	checkpointer	checkpointers
	definite	checkpointerna	checkpointernas

Declension of checkpoint

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	checkpoint	checkpoints
	definite	checkpointen	checkpointens
plural	indefinite	checkpointar	checkpointars
	definite	checkpointarna	checkpointarnas