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Snapshot
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- 1 A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
"He carried a snapshot of his daughter."
- 2 an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera wordnet
- 3 A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
"The article offered a snapshot of life in that region."
- 4 A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
"This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed."
- 5 A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
"Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out."
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- 6 A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
"How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!"
- 1 To take a photograph of. transitive
"As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him."
- 2 To capture the state of, in a snapshot. transitive
"Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level."
Etymology
From snap + shot.
From snap + shot.
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