- Literally, a Gatekeeper is a person who guards or monitors passage through a gate. When toll roads were in use in Britain the gatekeeper was responsible for manning the toll gates.
- Figuratively, Gatekeeper is used to mean a person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- With reference to H.323 a Gatekeeper is an entitiy that manages a H.323 zone, providing address information/translation and other services to the terminals within the zone, and for Gatekeepers managing other zones.
- A Gatekeeper picks the best news, about 20 % and forward it to the newspapers.
- In Final Doom, Gatekeepers are powerful, enormous and ancient demons that have the power to open Gates and control/protect them. In "Plutonia Experiment" a Gatekeeper mans the last Gate of Hell and is planning a new invasion of Earth. The nameless Space Marine has the task to infiltrate the demon-infested research complex and defeat the Gatekeeper before it is too late.
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