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Zoom

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Zoom may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

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Film

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Music

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Television

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Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

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  • Zoom! (poetry book), a 1989 poetry collection by Simon Armitage, now Poet Laureate
  • Zoom, commonly associated with variations of the Reverse-Flash, an enemy of the DC Comics character the Flash
  • Zoom!, a computer game
  • Zoom, a wordless children's picture book by Istvan Banyai
  • Zoom Schwartz Profigliano, a drinking game often referred to as just "Zoom"
  • Zoom, a French photography magazine first published in 1978

Businesses and organisations

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Technology

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Computing

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Optics

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  • Zoom ratio, the maximum relative to the minimum magnification factor of an optical system
  • Zoom lens, a lens system with a variable focal length, and hence variable magnification and angle of view
  • Zooming (filmmaking), a cinematographic effect
  • Maxx Zoom, a camera system

Other uses

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  • Bergen op Zoom, a municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands
  • Billy Zoom (born 1948), American guitarist and founding member of punk band X
  • Zoom climb, in aviation
  • Zooming (writing skill), especially used in descriptive writing
  • ZooMS (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry), a scientific method that identifies animal species from a protein found in bone and antler

See also

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