Other forms: checkpoints
A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped and examined. A border checkpoint, pass the checkpoint, a military checkpoint.
In a country at war they are where ordinary life meets the conflict most often, and passing one is a daily ordeal for people who live behind one. In computing a checkpoint is a saved state you can return to.
1nouncheckpointA place where traffic is stopped and examined.
“Soldiers at the checkpoint searched every car before letting it cross the border.”
checkpoint is a place.
Check plus point, from military usage in the twentieth century for a post where movement is verified.
From check + point.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA