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Closeup of a Rose in full bloom

The term bloom refers to one or more flowers on a flowering plant, to a cut flower, to the aesthetic experience derived from flowers or comparable to that derived from flowers. A plant or a person may be described as being "in bloom", and when used of a person this is a metaphor for a young person at the peak of their beauty or health. See also Blossom.

Bloom or blooming can also refer to the following:

Places

• Bloom, Kansas, United States
• Bloom, Wisconsin, United States

Bloom Township, multiple places in the United States:

Science and nature

• Bloom (bloomery), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery
• Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting
• Bloom (shader effect), a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games
• Bloom (test), a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin
• Bloom filter, a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set
• Blooming (laser), an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air
• Charge-coupled device overload aka bloom, property of CCD image sensors, causes charge from the potential well of one pixel to overflow
• Bloom syndrome, autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predispose patient to a wide variety of cancer
• Algal bloom
• Wax bloom a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax. It occurs on the surface of many fruits, and can appear on drawings made with coloured pencils.
• Bloom Energy Server, a home solid oxide fuel cell manufactured by the Bloom Energy company

Music

• Bloom (Billy Pilgrim album) by Billy Pilgrim, 1995
• Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album) by Audio Adrenaline, 1996
• Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album) by Gabriel & Dresden, 2004
• Bloom (Jeff Coffin album) by Jeff Coffin, 2005
• Bloom (Eric Johnson album) by Eric Johnson, 2005
• Bloom (Lou Rhodes album) by Lou Rhodes, 2007
• In Bloom, hit single from Nirvana's album Nevermind, 1992

Entertainment

• Bloom (novel), a science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy
• Bloom (film), award winning Irish film
• Bloom (Winx Club), a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series
• Bloom (software), a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Bloom County, American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
• Club Blooming, a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
• The Brothers Bloom, a 2009 movie.

Businesses

• Bloom (store), a U.S. supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
• Bloom Brothers Department Stores, a defunct chain of department stores in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
• Bloom Cigar Company, a Pittsburgh cigar store
• Bloom's restaurant, England's longest-standing kosher restaurant.
• Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide fuel cell

Other uses

• "Blooming", a less offensive version of the term "Bloody"
• Bloom (cheese), may refer to a distinctive mould on the rinds of some cheeses.
• Chocolate bloom, the appearance of a white, mouldy-looking film on chocolate.

People bearing surname Bloom

• Adam Bloom (born 1971), English comedian
• Allan Bloom (1930-1992), American philosopher and author
• Alan Bloom (1906-2005), English nurseryman
• Benjamin Bloom (1913-1999), American educator
• Bobby Bloom (1946-1974), American singer songwriter best known as one hit wonder for "Montego Bay" in 1970
• Claire Bloom (born 1931), British actor
• David Bloom (1963–2003), NBC journalist
• Davis Bloome, fictional character in the TV series Smallville
• Harold Bloom (born 1930), American literary critic
• Harry Bloom (1913-1981), South African novelist and activist
• Howard Bloom (born 1943), American author
• Jeremy Bloom (born 1982), American athlete
• John Bloom (born 1931), British entrepreneur
• Leopold Bloom, fictional character in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Luka Bloom (born 1955), Irish musician
• Matt Bloom (born 1972), American wrestler
• Molly Bloom, fictional character in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Orlando Bloom (born 1977), English actor
• Rube Bloom (1902–1976), American composer
• Steve Bloom (born 1953), Photographer
• Ursula Bloom (1892-1984), English writer
• Verna Bloom, American actress, best known for role in Animal House

See also

• Blum
• Bloombase Technologies
• Bloomberg (disambiguation)
• Bloomfield
• Blumenthal
• Bloomer
• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

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English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːm

Etymology 1

via Middle English from Old Norse blóm

Noun

bloom (plural blooms)

1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
2. Flowers, collectively.
3. (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.

   The cherry trees are in bloom.

4. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

   the bloom of youth

5. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
6. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
7. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
8. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. (Knight.)
9. (mineralogy) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.

   the rose-red cobalt bloom

10. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.

Synonyms

• (flower of a plant): blossom, flower
• (opening of flowers): blossom, flower
• (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness): flush, glow

Derived terms

• bloomy
• in bloom

Translations

blossom See blossom

flowers, collectively See flower

Etymology 2

From Middle English bloom (“‘a blossom’”)

Verb

to bloom (third-person singular simple present blooms, present participle blooming, simple past and past participle bloomed)

1. (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
2. (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
3. (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish.

Synonyms

• (open its blooms): blossom, flower
• (flourish) blossom, flourish, thrive

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English blōma

Noun

bloom (plural blooms)

1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 26:

     These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.

Translations

Related terms

• blooming