1. A place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
   "We had to show our passports at the checkpoint before entering the country"
    
2. A point with fixed GPS coordinates where location can be verified on a sea or air route
   "The pilot confirmed their position at each checkpoint";
   - waypoint
    
3. (computing) a time when a consistent state is stored to disk so that everything from that time can be recovered if there is a failure; the data stored at such a time
   "resume from the last checkpoint"

1. Make a checkpoint
   "The system automatically checkpoints every hour"

Derived forms: checkpointing, checkpointed, checkpoints

Type of: stop

Encyclopedia: Checkpoint