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checkee

checkee noun: someone or something that is checked.

Noun

checkee (plural checkees)

  1. Someone or something that is checked.
    • My eyes bugged out when they explained just how a kilt check was accomplished (and it turned out it was merely a hand run up the outside of the checkee’s leg to the hip in an attempt to feel an underwear line, the Wenches being very big on maintaining a PG-13 level of participation at Faires...2005, Katie MacAlister, Hard Day’s Knight, New York, N.Y.: Signet Eclipse, →ISBN
    • Here we call a program that checks the results of another program and reports errors the checker, and the program under check the checkee. […] A checker is time efficient if its time complexity is lower than that of the checkee and the space complexity is not higher than that of the checkee.2007, Michael T. Goodrich, Jonathan Z. Sun, “Checking Value-Sensitive Data Structures in Sublinear Space”, in Takeshi Tokuyama, editor, Algorithms and Computation: 18th International Symposium, ISAAC...

Forms of checkee

pluralcheckees

Origin of checkee

From check + -ee.

Questions about checkee

What does checkee mean?
Checkee means someone or something that is checked.
What part of speech is checkee?
Checkee is a noun.
What is the plural of checkee?
The plural of checkee is checkees.

Words near checkee in the dictionary

  1. checked tones
  2. checked up
  3. checked up on
  4. checked upstairs
  5. checkedst
  6. checkee
  7. checkees
  8. Checkendon
  9. checker
  10. checkerbark juniper
  11. checkerbark junipers

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