Checkpoint

Checkpoint may refer to:

Places

• Border checkpoint, a place on the land border between two states where travellers and/or goods are inspected
  • Checkpoint Charlie, the best known crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War
• Security checkpoint, erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary control
  • Random checkpoint, stopping vehicles on a public roadway looking for impaired drivers
  • Weigh station, a highway checkpoint to inspect vehicular weights
• Waypoint, a reference point in physical space used for purposes of navigation
  • Checkpoint (video gaming), a point in a video game at which a player may restart if they are "killed" or lose the game
  • Orienteering checkpoint, a marked waypoint used in orienteering and related sports

Biology

• Cell cycle checkpoint, control mechanisms in eukaryotic cell division
• Postreplication checkpoint, prevents cell cycle progression until postreplication repair
• Spindle checkpoint, prevents anaphase onset until all chromosomes are properly attached to the spindle

Arts and Entertainment

• Checkpoint (Transformers), two fictional characters in the Transformers universes
• Checkpoint (novel), a 2004 novel by Nicholson Baker
• Checkpoint (Australian political periodical) 1969-1974
• "Checkpoint" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a 2001 episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Checkpoint (1956 film), a 1956 British crime drama film
• Checkpoint (2003 film), a documentary on checkpoints in the Occupied West Bank
• Checkpoint (pinball), a 1991 pinball machine released by Data East

Computing

• Application checkpointing, a method in computing whereby the state of a program is saved
• Check Point, a software company that is best known for its firewall and VPN products
• Checkpoint restart, a method for restarting a long software process at a point beyond its beginning
• Transaction checkpoint, for recovery in data management