SNAPSHOT
snapshot, snap, shot
(noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; “my snapshots haven’t been developed yet”; “he tried to get unposed shots of his friends”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
snapshot (plural snapshots)
A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
(computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
(soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
(firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
Verb
snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)
(transitive) To take a photograph of.
(transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
Source: Wiktionary
Snap"shot`, n.
1. Commonly Snap shot.
(a) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over
the sights.
(b) (Photog.) Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
2. An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera,
without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the
subject.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition