Crossword clues for checkpoint
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
Wiktionary
n. 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 2 (context computing English) 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 3 (context video games English) 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. vb. To set a checkpoint
WordNet
n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
Wikipedia
Checkpoint may refer to:
"Checkpoint" is the twelfth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Checkpoint is an American novel written by Nicholson Baker in 2004.
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 with standard DMDs that were twice the height. Checkpoint also features video mode minigames on its display.
In 2008, the Popular Mechanics website included the machine on a list of the top eight most innovative pinball machines of all time.
Checkpoint is a 1956 British crime drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, and James Robertson Justice.
Checkpoint (original title: Machssomim) is a 2003 documentary film by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, showing the everyday interaction between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians at several of the regions Israel Defense Forces checkpoints. The film won five awards at various film festivals, including Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, best feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Although the film was generally well received, it was also controversial and reactions from audience members and critics were sometimes very angry.
Checkpoint was a journal published in Melbourne Australia at approximately quarterly intervals, by a group of organisations associated loosely with the Liberal Party side of politics. It appeared from August 1969 (No. 1) until June 1974 (No. 16).
Checkpoint is a Dutch children's TV show broadcast by the Evangelische Omroep on Zapp. It can be described as a jumble between Brainiac, Jackass and Fear Factor for youth. The show is presented by Klaas van Kruistum.
In this show tests are carried out which can be sent in by the viewers. However, most tests are not based upon scientific methods. It is rather a show in which stunts are performed.
The ninth season of Checkpoint will air in September 2014.
Checkpoint was the name of the first rapid HIV testing facility in the Netherlands. This project, run on a voluntary basis, was based in Amsterdam. From 21 June 2002 until its closure on 27 June 2008 almost 5000 people opted for a Checkpoint HIV test.
The rapid HIV testing employed by Checkpoint was for the whole of its existence unique in the Netherlands, because it was at that time not used by the various local health authorities. Such authorities and physicians employed the regular HIV antibody test and clients had to wait 1 or 2 weeks for the result. When an increasing number of local health authorities began using the rapid HIV test, Checkpoint had served its purpose and could be closed down. The rapid HIV test enabled a reliable outcome to be generated within 15 to 20 minutes, which in practice lowered the threshold for such testing. Because in this way more people opted for testing, more HIV-positive people could be reached. A clear advantage is that the diagnosis is made at the earliest possible stage of the infection, facilitating adequate treatment. In addition, through successful early treatment, the infectious period for HIV-positive people can be reduced. In addition to developing the rapid HIV testing methodology, now widely employed, Checkpoint was constantly engaged in promoting the introduction of this rapid testing both in the Netherlands and abroad and in lending support to such initiatives.
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.