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Definition of zoom noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

zoom

noun

/zuːm/

/zuːm/

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(also zoom lens)
[countable] a camera lens that you use to make the thing that you are photographing appear nearer to you or further away from you than it really is
- a zoom shot
[singular] the sound of a vehicle moving very fast
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Word Originlate 19th cent.: imitative.

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