Definition of "zoom"

zoom¹

/zuːm/

noun
plural zooms
1. A humming noise from something moving very fast.
2. (figurative) A quick ascent.
3. (figurative) A big increase.
4. An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
verb
third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed
1. To move fast with a humming noise.
  Quotations
  […] and it was strange sitting in their brand-new comfortable car and hearing them talk of exams as we zoomed smoothly into town.
  1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press
2. (aviation) To zoom climb.
3. To move rapidly.
4. To go up sharply.
5. (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
6. To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
interjection
1. Representing a humming sound
  Quotations
  Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently.
  1918, Annie Vivanti Chartres, The Outrage, page 196
2. Suggesting something moving quickly
  Quotations
  I would dance a few light fantastic steps to show which way the wind lay, and zoom! Like a breeze I was on the piano stool and doing a velocity exercise.
  1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 244
3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase

zoom²

/zuːm/

verb
third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed
1. To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
noun
plural zooms
1. A video teleconferencing call.
  Quotations
  Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.
  2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times‎