Zoom
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English
Noun
Zoom (plural Zooms)- a humming noise from something moving very fast
- a quick ascent
- a big increase
- an augmentation of a view as with a lens
Verb
Zoom (third-person singular simple present Zooms, present participle Zooming, simple past and past participle Zoomed)
- to move fast with a humming noise
- to fly an airplane straight up
- to move rapidly
- to go up sharply
- to change the focal length of a zoom lens
- (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it
Derived terms
Descendants
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