CHECKPOINT

Check Point

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an international provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, data security and security management.

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Checkpoint

Checkpoint is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers series. Checkpoint was a part of an Autobot S.W.A.T. team along with Prowl who he was sold with. Checkpoint is a mainly black and white six-wheeled futuristic truck of a fictional make. He is able to 'powerlinx' with any other Powerlinx toy from Energon. His hand-held weapon is a missile launcher. Checkpoint does not have an official bio.

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checkpoint

Noun

  1. 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
    The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.
  2. 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
    After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.
  3. 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.
    You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.

Verb

  1. To set a checkpoint


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