zooming
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈzuːmɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]zooming
- present participle and gerund of zoom
Noun
[edit]zooming (plural zoomings)
- A sound or motion that zooms.
- 1937, Ida Hurst, A Vagabond Typist in Africa, Abyssinia & the Gulf:
- the zoomings of myriad insects
- 1942, Blackwood's Magazine:
- What care we took over the cleaning realistic zoomings, honkings, and […] preserving of that horror
- 1998, Cynthia Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs:
- a propensity for rhizomatic zoomings characterizes the cyborg of the electronic age