checkpoint vs transit

checkpoint

verb
  • To set a checkpoint. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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 

  • 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. 

transit

verb
  • To make a transit. 

  • To pass over, across or through something. 

  • To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge. 

  • To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction. 

  • To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles. 

noun
  • An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit. 

  • The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body. 

  • A Ford Transit van, see Transit. 

  • Public transport system. 

  • The act of passing over, across, or through something. 

  • A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles. 

  • The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance. 

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