English-Spanish translations for checkpoint

• puesto de control
  300 personas cruzamos el puesto de control de Kalandia para ir a ver a Arafat. Three hundred of us crossed the Kalandia checkpoint to go to meet Yasser Arafat.
  Vayan a visitar un puesto de control y verán lo que sucede en los carreteras. Go and have a look at what is happening on the roads by visiting a checkpoint.

Definition of checkpoint

• 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
• 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
• A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to
• To set a checkpoint

Examples

• The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.
• After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.
• You cant finish the race if you havent passed all of the checkpoints on the track.

Related words

• check
• checkmate
• check-in
• checkout
• paycheck
• checkbox
• checklist
• check-out
• self-checkout