English edit

Etymology edit

From check +‎ -ee.

Noun edit

checkee (plural checkees)

  1. Someone or something that is checked.
    Coordinate term: checker
    • 2005, Katie MacAlister, Hard Day’s Knight, New York, N.Y.: Signet Eclipse, →ISBN:
      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).
    • 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 2007, Sendai, Japan, December 2007, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 353:
      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.
    • 2014, Wolf Christian, The Stage Combat Handbook: A Tool for the Student of the Art of Stage Combat, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 87–88:
      To check Lunging Distance: [] If either party feels that the distance requires adjustment, then the checker remains in the lunge and the feet of the checkee will make the adjustment.