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The moment where progress gets saved or your journey gets politely interrogated.
means A designated place or moment where things are stopped, verified, or recorded — whether a barrier where travelers are inspected or a saved point in a game or process.
from A plain English compound, marrying 'check' (to verify or halt — itself from chess, where 'check' warned a king under threat, via Old French 'eschec' from Persian 'shah,' king) with 'point' (a fixed spot, from Latin 'punctum,' a pricked mark). So buried in the word is a tiny chessboard: a place where your king's progress is halted and examined.
- video games
- Saved you from re-fighting that boss forty times
- biology
- Cells have checkpoints that halt division if DNA is damaged
- cold war
- Checkpoint Charlie split Berlin for nearly three decades
- etymology
- Originally a railway point where train checks occurred
checkpoint charlie — famous berlin wall crossing point between east and west berlin during the cold war
checkpoint 270 — rwandan genocide memorial site in kigali marking a mass killing location in 1994
checkpoint 37 — heavily fortified israel-palestine border crossing in the west bank near bethlehem