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# checkpoint

«checkpoint» in Mova's mysticism dictionary: **stopped and checked** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place on a road where people or cars are stopped and checked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/C/checkpoint/#m1)

2) In computing, a saved state of a program or a model, so that the work can go on from it later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/C/checkpoint/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the mystic school: In note 08 the ape at the end of the second season is "not the end" but "a checkpoint": a saved state to compare and learn from.

### examples

- It is a checkpoint. (note 08) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/C/checkpoint/#x1)
- In the second season evolution runs backwards, human to ape to fish to cell to molecule to a point, and at the end someone lays the first and last apes side by side and counts the differences: none means lossless, a few is the loss the next season learns from; the ape is a checkpoint. (lesson 020) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/C/checkpoint/#x2)
- In the note, the ape "is not the end. It is a checkpoint." (lesson 020) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/C/checkpoint/#x3)

### note

A record of the mystic school, written from the notes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «checkpoint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/C/checkpoint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.