snapshot

A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.

He carried a snapshot of his daughter.

A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.

The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.

I hope you've enjoyed reading this series. As usual, it's just a snapshot because there's so much to say but only so many words can make it into print.

A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.

Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out.

A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.

How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!

To take a photograph of.

As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.

To capture the state of, in a snapshot.

Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.