What does zoom mean?

Definitions for zoom
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rapid climb, rapid growth, zoomnoun

    a rapid rise

  2. soar, zoomverb

    the act of rising upward into the air

  3. zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz alongverb

    move along very quickly

  4. zoomverb

    move with a low humming noise

  5. soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoomverb

    rise rapidly

    "the dollar soared against the yen"

Wiktionary

  1. zoomnoun

    a humming noise from something moving very fast

  2. zoomnoun

    a quick ascent

  3. zoomnoun

    a big increase

  4. zoomnoun

    an augmentation of a view as with a lens

  5. zoomverb

    to move fast with a humming noise

  6. zoomverb

    to fly an airplane straight up

  7. zoomverb

    to move rapidly

  8. zoomverb

    to go up sharply

    prices zoomed

  9. zoomverb

    to change the focal length of a zoom lens

  10. zoomverb

    (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it

  11. Etymology: 1892 verb, 1918 noun, 1942 interjection. Originally imitative of a sound.

Wikipedia

  1. Zoom

    Zoom is a song by American band Fat Larry's Band released as the fourth single from their fifth studio album, Breakin' Out (1982). The song was a commercial hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It also reached #10 on the Australian music charts, entering the chart on 13 December 1982 and spending 24 weeks on the chart. It was released in Australia on the Virgin label (Virgin VS-546). It remains one of the group's best-known songs, despite being received poorly in their native US, peaking at #89. The song was featured in the 1982 Christmas Special episode of the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses, "Diamonds Are for Heather".

ChatGPT

  1. zoom

    Zoom is a function or action in digital technology that allows one to magnify or reduce the size of a visual media, such as an image, a webpage, a document or the screen display itself. It enables closer examination of details or a wider view of a whole. In the context of video conferencing and digital photography, it refers to the ability to make the subjects appear closer or further away.

Wikidata

  1. Zoom

    Zoom is an American educational television show, created almost entirely by children, which aired on PBS originally from January 3, 1972 to March 24, 1978. This was produced by WGBH-TV in Boston.

Suggested Resources

  1. ZOOM

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of zoom in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of zoom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of zoom in a Sentence

  1. Dean Ornish:

    Sharing things like 'I may look like the perfect father, but my kids are on heroin,' or whatever. Even by Zoom, they're getting to the same level of intimacy within one or two sessions because there's such a hunger for that.

  2. Missy Perez:

    Luckily, I work with really wonderful people, so when I explained to the group what I was doing, they were so supportive, cheering me on via Zoom, they hooted and hollered as we shored up the two appointment times.

  3. Elon Musk:

    The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one, so it’s quite difficult to keep this thing running, and then also difficult to advance the product because it is really overly complex, to say the least.

  4. Rick Shine:

    Then aligning his body with hers, maybe wrapping coils around her to hold her in place so he can position himself for copulation, but females often aren't interested, so they zoom away and hide in the coral.

  5. Julia Raz:

    Students have to' Zoom in' from a variety of settings, and requiring cameras to be on unfairly magnifies socio-economic differences and is also ableist, i wouldn't say it's distracting to have webcams off. It is just rather disheartening and lonely to talk to a screen full of black rectangles.

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