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snapshotting

snapshotting is the present participle and gerund of snapshot.

Meaning of snapshot

Verb

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

  1. (transitive) 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.1904, David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada
  2. (transitive) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
    • Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30

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Questions about snapshotting

What is snapshotting the present participle and gerund of?
Snapshotting is the present participle and gerund of snapshot.

Words near snapshotting in the dictionary

  1. snapshottable
  2. snapshotted
  3. snapshotter
  4. snapshotters
  5. snapshottery
  6. snapshotting
  7. Snapstreak
  8. snapsuit
  9. snapsuits
  10. snapt
  11. snapt back

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