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screenshot

UK/ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/US/ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/

noun

What it means

  1. computingAn image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

    I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

    Synonyms: screencast, screen capture, screen dump, screengrab, screenie, screencap

In a sentence

I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

Where it comes from

From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

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