snapshot
snapshot Lexical Profile
snapshot Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An informal photograph taken quickly, typically with a small handheld camera or smartphone and without artistic or journalistic pretension.
"She flipped through an old album filled with childhood snapshots from their summer vacations."
A brief summary, impression, or isolated view that provides a quick understanding of a situation or process at a specific moment in time.
"The quarterly report offers a useful snapshot of the company's current financial health."
A saved record of the complete state, data, and configuration of a computer system, storage volume, or virtual machine at a particular point in time.
"Before applying the major software update, the administrator created a snapshot of the database server."
• verb
To take a quick, informal photograph of someone or something, or to record the state of a computer system at a specific moment.
"The automated backup tool is configured to snapshot the virtual machine every night at midnight."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Originally an early 19th-century hunting term for a quick gunshot fired without deliberate aim, the word was adopted into photography in 1860 by Sir John Herschel to describe taking an instantaneous photograph.