snippet

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsnɪ.pət/, X-SAMPA: /"snI.p@t/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

Etymology

From snip +‎ -et. Compare snippock.

Noun

snippet (plural snippets)

1. a tiny piece or part

   From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.

2. (computing) a textfile containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase

Translations

a tiny piece or part

• Catalan: fragment (ca)
• Finnish: pätkä (fi)
• German: stück (de), teil (de)
• Greek: απόσπασμα (el) (apóspasma)

• Korean: 끄트러기, 조각, 단편
• Norwegian: snutt (no) m
• Polish: skrawek (1), strzęp (1), (mały) fragment (1)