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Definition of "snapshot" []

  • A photograph taken with a small hand-held camera. (noun)
  • An isolated observation: a sociopolitical snapshot of the electorate. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "snapshot" in a sentence
  • "For example, look at the number of features that use the term snapshot in SQL Server 2005: snapshot isolation, database snapshots, snapshot replication, Snapshot Agent."
  • "(For a 1: 38: 00 minutes video of The Fourth Kind, this snapshot is at about 6: 22 minutes)"
  • "(For a 1: 38: 00 minutes video of The Fourth Kind, this snapshot is at about 6: 10 minutes)"