Snapshot

//ˈsnæpʃɒt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.

    "He carried a snapshot of his daughter."

  2. 2
    an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera wordnet
  3. 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. 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. 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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  1. 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!"

Verb
  1. 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. 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

Etymology 1

From snap + shot.

Etymology 2

From snap + shot.

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