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Abbreviation vs Checkpoint - What's the difference?

abbreviation | checkpoint |

As nouns the difference between abbreviation and checkpoint

is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while checkpoint is 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.

As a verb checkpoint is

to set a checkpoint.

abbreviation

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Noun

(en noun)
  • The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
  • (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
  • The process of abbreviating.
  • (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
  • (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
  • Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
  • the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
  • (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
  • (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
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    checkpoint

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint .
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
  • A few days later I ford the Jordan River on a bus: Foot travel across Allenby Bridge checkpoint is strictly prohibited.
  • (computing) 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
  • After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint .
  • (video games) 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.
  • You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.
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  • , date = 2010-03-08 , title = (Chuck Versus the Beard) , series = , season = 3 , number = 9 , people = (Zachary Levi) , role = (Chuck Bartowski) , at = 20:40 , passage = This is not a videogame, this is real life! People get hurt! There is no restart from last checkpoint . }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set a checkpoint