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Control station in two stops
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checkpoint
Word definitions for checkpoint in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
checkpoint \checkpoint\ n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, from check (v.) + point (n.). Originally an aviator's term for landforms or structures of known height against which the craft's altitude could be visually checked. The "vehicle stop" sense is recorded from 1950.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Checkpoint is a 1991 pinball machine released by Data East . It featured the first dot matrix display (DMD) ever incorporated into a pinball game. For Checkpoint, Data East used a "half-height" DMD. By way of comparison, Williams later produced machines ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
Usage examples of checkpoint.
At checkpoints on major highways and rail lines, traffic was topped and carefully inspected for stowaway clusters of bees, with small result.
There were checkpoints maintained by police and Federal Biocontrol authorities, who would test anyone passing through.
When the booties were all turned, we packaged them in small bags according to size and number needed at each checkpoint.
Dressed in the uniform of a lieutenant in the Voenno Kosmicheskie Sily, Kuhl rode up to the checkpoint station at the north gate of the Cosmodrome in the twoseat cabin of an MZKT-7429 military semi-trailer truck.
But he was standing at the security checkpoint when Stokely, wearing an XXXL white guayabera and a broad-brimmed straw hat, appeared in the midst of a gaggle of passengers.
Ignoring that tasteless bit of interservice jealousy, I checked the time and saw that we should be over our next checkpoint in four minutes, provided the winds were anything like predicted.
Numerous government reports indicated that checkpoints performed poorly, often failing to detect even obvious FAA test items.
Murdicks were waiting at the departure checkpoint Holly in goggles and a semitransparent one-piece, Willis in a flying suit and helmet.
Something about the major at the checkpoint in Tallinn had made them both uneasy and unwilling to delay getting to Leningrad.
Grout and Kublin left the checkpoint just as George departed, and the three teams traveled together up the unplowed Taylor Highway.
A permanent guard was kept on the ships and checkpoints were maintained night and day on all roads leading from Aulis, manned by archers faithful to Odysseus or the Cretan Idomeneus, who had made themselves jointly responsible for security.
He explained that he too had been detained at several checkpoints, and like Murdick he was not angry with the guards, but rather with the aliens who made the checkpoints necessary.
It was certainly safest: the security patrols were at their strongest at night, and the checkpoints and scanners were all in operation.
No one ever moved here and in the past few years they had hardly bothered to operate the checkpoints except when they received a raid alert, which was not even twice a year.
As part of due diligence, they could have been hired to review training programs, check compliance, test checkpoints, stuff like that.