zooms

Races right past

Zooms is the plural of zoom and the third-person singular verb form.

A zoom is a rapid movement or the sound it makes: The car went by with a zoom.

Camera zooms adjust focal length to magnify or widen a view.

In video calls, to zoom is to participate via the Zoom platform: She zooms with her grandkids every Sunday.

magnification

lens

Light-focusing curved glass

optical · digital · closeup · enlargement · detail · resolution · clarity · sharpness · cropping · framing

increase

escalation

Progressive increase in intensity

soar · boom · explosion · multiplication · proliferation · uptick · jump · climb · snowball · mushroom

speed

acceleration

Rate velocity changes

dash · race · sprint · rocket · jet · bullet · supersonic · turbo · whirlwind · rapid

videoconference

webinar

Internet-hosted interactive presentation

remote · mute · unmute · participants · attendees · host · chat · recording · bandwidth · lag

Categories
Opposites
speed of movement

zoomscrawls

Moves slowly, low

creeps · plods · trudges · dawdles · ambles

acceleration/momentum

zoomsdecelerates

Reduces velocity gradually

slows · brakes · halts · stops · stalls

camera/visual perspective

zoomszooms out

Decreases magnification level

pulls back · widens · pans out · holds steady · pans

Phrases
Family

zoom, zooming, zoomed, zoomer, unzoom, superzoom, unzoomed

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G