different between representation vs snapshot

English

Etymology 1

From Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentatio.

Alternative forms

• repræsentation (archaic)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• IPA^(key): /???p.??.z?n.?te?.??n/

Noun

representation (countable and uncountable, plural representations)

1. That which represents something else.
2. The act of representing.

   We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.

3. (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

4. (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.

5. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
6. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
7. A theatrical performance.

Synonyms

• (image, form): likeness

Derived terms

• faithful representation (mathematics)
• representation space
• under-representation, underrepresentation

Related terms

• represent
• representable
• representamen
• representant

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? presentation.

Alternative forms

• re-presentation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?.p??.z?n.?te?.??n/

Noun

representation (plural representations)

1. (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.

References

• representation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• representation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• representation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• representation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• repenetrations

English

Etymology

snap +? shot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæp.??t/

Noun

snapshot (plural snapshots)

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

   He carried a snapshot of his daughter.

2. A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
3. (computing) 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.

4. (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
5. (firearms) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
   • 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman

     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!

Derived terms

• Snapchat

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
2. (transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
   • 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)

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

Translations

References

• “snapshot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.