zoom

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move very fast, often with a humming sound.

   We zoomed along the highway.

2. 2
   verb

   To make a picture on a screen look larger or smaller.

   Zoom in to read the small text on the map.

3. 3
   noun

   The ability of a camera or lens to make a distant object look closer.

   What's the zoom like on your camera?

4. 4
   verb

   To rise sharply and quickly.

   House prices zoomed during the boom.

From Zoom, a videoconferencing software by Zoom Video Communications; renamed as such (from Saasbee) in May 2012 by Jim Scheinman after the American children's book Zoom City (1998) by Thacher Hurd for ostensibly encapsulating creativity, happiness and exploration. Scheinman had "been saving the name Zoom for a long time."

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