Snapshot

Quick meaning: Snapshot is a noun meaning A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
2. (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
3. (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
4. (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
5. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
6. (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.

Example Sentences

He carried a snapshot of his daughter.

The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.

This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

Word Forms

• snapshots
• snapshotting
• snapshotted

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