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SNAPSHOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
Example:
he tried to get unposed shots of his friends
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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 also provides a snapshot of our galaxy’s history, showing that the Milky Way has had its fair share of galactic fender benders with other galaxies.
(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)
Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured a spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf star PDS 70.
(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)
Previous data sets have either given a one-year snapshot of velocities, focused on a different location, or averaged rates of change over much larger areas of Antarctica, obscuring velocity changes over time and the behavior of individual glaciers.
(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
All that he was and was not, all that he had done and most of what he had not done, was spread out for the delectation of the public, accompanied by snapshots and photographs—the latter procured from the local photographer who had once taken Martin's picture and who promptly copyrighted it and put it on the market.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)
