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checkpoint

checkpoint

4 4.5
A saved state of a program or model that you can load later
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : punto de control
  • Sashkin (1991) identifies various quality checkpoints including user, distribution, process, incoming quality, and supply points to increase quality.

So that's how, that's why you want to save checkpoints often and then, you know, validate them often if you're done with that already.

Examples

  • I recommend using groups of two to three students and creating several small, intermediate checkpoints throughout the process.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Each of these core principles is further explained through guidelines and checkpoints.

    Academic text (2015)
  • What you really focus on is each checkpoint and each step.

  • So I try to treat it as a checkpoint, you know, on paper, nothing has changed from one day to the next.

  • I think I just jumped down to an old checkpoint, but I'm not sure.

  • Therefore, you can load previous checkpoints if completing one challenge messes up completing another.

    Blog text (31)
  • In addition to monitoring and verification, there are built-in checkpoints along the path of implementation.

    Academic text (2003)
  • That's our midway checkpoint.

  • So that's how, that's why you want to save checkpoints often and then, you know, validate them often if you're done with that already.

  • The programmer saved a checkpoint to ensure that he could return to this state if needed.

Synonyms

snapshot
vscheckpoint
  • Specialized
22 3.9

A saved copy of a computer system at one time used to put it back

is stored so work can be resumed later rather than only for backup

How Complete

backup
  • Specialized
114 2.1
checkpoint
  • Specialized
4 4.5
snapshot
  • Specialized
22 3.9

Surface Forms

checkpoint singular
checkpoints plural

Morphology

checkpoint = check + point (semi-transparent) = check + point

Computing usage is a specialized/metaphorical extension: 'a point at which the system is checked/saved'.

Etymology

Checkpoint in computing uses the same idea: it is a 'marked place' to return to, like a 'save point' in a game, so you can restore work from that point.