Other forms: checklists
A checklist is a list ticked off item by item so nothing is missed. A pre-flight checklist, work through the checklist, a checklist of symptoms.
Aviation invented the modern one after a bomber crashed in 1935 because a pilot forgot one lock, and surgery has since adopted it — a nineteen-item surgical checklist cut deaths measurably in a World Health Organization trial.
1nounchecklistA list ticked off item by item so nothing is missed.
“Before the holiday, she went through her checklist to be sure she had packed everything.”
checklist is a list.
Check plus list, an American formation of the early twentieth century, from the aviation and railway worlds.
From check + list.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA