screenshot
verbEtymology From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To take a screenshot of something.
- To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.
- Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:
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- It was one of the funnier, somewhat surprising screw-ups we’d seen from Gemini, which like all publicly available artificial intelligence tools is prone to what the tech industry calls “hallucinations.” He screenshot the answer so that we could have a laugh about it, and then scrolled down to find the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia.2025 January 14, Allison Morrow, “In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet”, in CNN: