SNAPSHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snapshot mean? 

• SNAPSHOT (noun)
  The noun SNAPSHOT has 1 sense:

1. an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera

  Familiarity information: SNAPSHOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAPSHOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shot; snap; snapshot

Context example:

he tried to get unposed shots of his friends

Hypernyms ("snapshot" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

 Context examples 

It was evidently taken by a snapshot from a small camera.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They represent a snapshot of gene expression in a given place or time.

(Expressed Sequence Tag, NCI Thesaurus)

These are among the first snapshots from Dawn's second mapping orbit, which is 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) above Ceres.

(Bright Spots Shine in Newest Dawn Ceres Images, NASA)

They used time-lapse crystallography to capture snapshots at different time points during assembly.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

A representation of a particular edition or snapshot of a document as it exists at a particular point in time.

(Document Version, NCI Thesaurus)

It was assembled from 82 snapshots representing a whopping 16.2 hours of Spitzer observing time.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

This method allowed them to capture high-resolution snapshots of receptors in several transitional stages.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

The snapshot of Uranus, like the image of Neptune, reveals a dominant feature: a vast bright stormy cloud cap across the north pole.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

Their valves provided a snapshot of early CAVD that is challenging to capture in humans, showing that it typically begins with the accumulation of certain sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in valve tissue.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study presents a roadmap for capturing 4-to-10-year snapshots of intermediate-mass black hole activity using both ground- and upcoming space-based detection instruments, including NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)