Snapshot

Pronunciation

Origin

From snap + shot.

Noun

1. A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
2. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
3. (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, 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.
4. (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
• 2011, March 2, Chris Whyatt, Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient, Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out.

Full definition of snapshot

Verb

1. (transitive) To take a snapshot of.
• 1904, David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of CanadaAs he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
• 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.