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1. A place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
    
2. A point with fixed GPS coordinates where location can be verified on a sea or air route
   - 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

Derived forms: checkpoints, checkpointing, checkpointed

Type of: stop

Encyclopedia: Checkpoint