snapshot
Noun
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Noun
snapshot (plural snapshots)
- A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
- He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
- A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
- The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
- (computing) 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.
- (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
- (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
- 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman
- 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!
- 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman
- French: instantané
- German: Schnappschuss
- Russian: сни́мок
- Spanish: instantánea
- German: Momentaufnahme
snapshot (snapshots, present participle snapshotting; past and past participle snapshotted)
- (transitive) To take a photograph of.
- (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
- 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)
- Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.
- 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)
- German: einen Schnappschuss machen von
- Russian: де́лать (момента́льный) сни́мок
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