3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: checkpoint \checkpoint\ n. a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance. [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: checkpoint n : a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: checkpoint Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results to disk or other {non-volatile storage}, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. This facility came into popular use in {mainframe} {operating systems}s such as {OS/360} in which programs frequently ran for longer than the mean time between system failures. If a program run fails because of some event beyond the program's control (e.g. hardware or {operating system} failure) then the processor time invested before the checkpoint will not have been wasted. (1995-02-07)
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