"checkee" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: checkees [plural]
Etymology: From check + -ee. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|check|ee}} check + -ee Head templates: {{en-noun}} checkee (plural checkees)
  1. Someone or something that is checked.

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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, although I heard mutterings from a few Wenches who swore by a version of kilt check that involved their hands on bare flesh).",
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          "text": "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.",
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