Milestone vs Checkpoint - What's the difference?
milestone | checkpoint |
A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
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To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
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
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(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
(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.
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As nouns the difference between milestone and checkpoint
is that milestone is a stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median 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 verbs the difference between milestone and checkpoint
is that milestone is to place milestones along (a road, etc.) while checkpoint is to set a checkpoint.milestone
English
(wikipedia milestone)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
Synonyms
* landmarkVerb
(mileston)Anagrams
* limestonecheckpoint
English
(wikipedia checkpoint)Noun
(en noun)- The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint .
- A few days later I ford the Jordan River on a bus: Foot travel across Allenby Bridge checkpoint is strictly prohibited.
- After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint .
- You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.
