checkpoint

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A point where a check is performed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun 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
• noun computing 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
• noun video games 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.
• verb To set a checkpoint

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• noun a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance