The Census Bureau's static snapshots of income distribution don't gauge Americans' ability to move up the economic ladder.

They give a static snapshot of the data and may include data from remote sources.

Therefore, it may be difficult to find the appropriate timescale for dividing the evolution of a network into static snapshots.

Head's paintings are in effect more like the record of a living human body wandering around a location, rather than a static snapshot of a part of it.

A human mind appeared to be a process, dynamic, and no static "snapshot," no matter how sophisticated the technology, could possibly capture its richness.

These provide static snapshots only.

Strategic dashboards benefit from static snapshots of data (daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly) that are not constantly changing from one moment to the next.

And then comes the tricky bit: when each window is asked to draw itself, what you get is a static snapshot of that window.

But because hedge funds can shift positions or increase leverage almost instantly, it's not clear that a static snapshot conveys the information needed.

"Do not look at a static snapshot," said Adi Sosono, the chairman of the Center for Information and Development Studies, a Government research group here.