Sekirov Dictionary

snapshot

/ˈsnæpʃɒt/

noun 5
verb 2
forms 3

noun5

•
A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden 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.
•
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.
•
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. — 2011
A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.

verb2

•
To take a photograph of.
- As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him. — 1904
•
To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
- Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level. — 2007

forms

snapshotted · snapshotting · snapshots

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