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Snapshot is a term coined by NetApp for the point in time copy of the system state and it has been widely used as a data protection feature in NetApp systems.
Today most of the storage vendors support snapshots
Commonly it means saved actual state of system/partition/memory/repositories, and so on. Snapshot of system usually means backup of entire system.