D defs.my
Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Snapshot

/snăp'-shätˌ/ · Snap·shot · IPA /ˈsnæpʃɒt/
01 n. A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
  1. 1.
    A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.(Photog.)
  2. 2.
    An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.
  3. 3.
    a brief summary or appraisal, especially one that describes the state of a situation at one particular time; as, a snapshot of the moon project in 1966.