Bloom or blooming may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology

* Bloom, one or more

flower A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechani ...

s on a flowering plant * Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system *

Jellyfish bloom Jellyfish blooms are substantial growths in population of species under the phyla Cnidaria (including several types of jellyfish) and Ctenophora (comb jellies). Blooms may take place naturally as a result of ocean and wind patterns, ecosystem shi ...

, a collective noun for a large group of jellyfish * Epicuticular wax bloom, a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax, occurring on the surface of many fruits * Bloom syndrome, an autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predisposes the patient to a wide variety of cancer

Computing

Bloom filter A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in ...

, a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set *

Bloom (shader effect) Bloom (sometimes referred to as light bloom or glow) is a computer graphics effect used in video games, demos, and high-dynamic-range rendering (HDRR) to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect produces fringes (or feathers ...

, a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games *

Bloom (software) Bloom is a generative music application for iOS created by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. The software plays a low drone Drone most commonly refers to: * Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg * Unmanned aerial vehicle * Unmanned surfac ...

, a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch *

BLOOM (language model) BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model (BLOOM) is a transformer A transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits. A va ...

, an open-source language model

Art conservation

* Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting oil pastels *

Saponification in art conservation Saponification is a process of converting esters into soaps and alcohols by the action of aqueous alkali (for example, aqueous sodium hydroxide solutions). Soaps are salts of fatty acids, which in turn are carboxylic acids with long carbon chains. ...

, a chalky white efflorescence on old oil paintings * Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a

watercolor painting Watercolor (American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the U ...

Other science and technology

Bloom (bloomery) A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its iron oxides, oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called ...

(sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery *

Bloom (casting) Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a steel mill that need further processing before being finished goods. There are four types: ''ingots'', ''blooms'', ''billets'', and ''slabs''. Ingot Ingots are large rough ...

, a semi-finished metal casting *

Bloom (sulfur) In polymer chemistry, materials science, and food science, bloom refers to the migration of one component of a solid mixture to the surface of an article. The process is an example of phase separation or phase aggregation. Materials science Blo ...

, the migration of sulfur to the exterior of a rubber *

Bloom (test) Bloom is a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin. The test was originally developed and patented in 1925 by Oscar T. Bloom. The test determines the weight in grams needed by a specified plunger (normally with a diameter of 0.5 inch) to ...

, a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin *

Blooming (CCD) A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to a neighboring capacitor. CCD sensors are a ...

, an effect that happens when a pixel in a CCD image sensor is overloaded *

Blooming (directed-energy weapon) A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include w ...

, an effect of laser beams and particle beams in the air *

Chocolate bloom Chocolate bloom is either of two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the s ...

, the appearance of white coating on chocolate *

Thermal blooming Thermal blooming, also known as thermal lensing, is an atmospheric effect, seen in high energy laser beams; It is the result of the nonlinear interaction of laser radiation with the propagation medium (e.g. air or glass), which is heated by the ab ...

, an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams

People

Bloom (surname) Bloom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Bloom (born 1970), English comedian * Alan Bloom (1906–2005), English nurseryman * Allan Bloom (1930–1992), American philosopher and author * Andy Bloom (born 1973), American s ...

Places

United States

* Bloom, Colorado, a ghost town * Bloom, Kansas, an unincorporated community *

Bloom, Wisconsin Bloom is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 487 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Bloom City and West Lima are located within the Town of Bloom. The unincorporated community of Ash Ridge ...

, a town *

Bloom City, Wisconsin Bloom City is an unincorporated community located, in the town of Bloom, in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. Bloom City is east of Viola ; german: Bratsche , alt=Viola shown from the front and the side , image=Bratsche.jpg , capti ...

, an unincorporated community * Blooming, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Bloom Creek (disambiguation) * Bloom's Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Bloom Township (disambiguation)

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bloom'' (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy * ''Bloom'' (2003 film), award-winning Irish film * ''Bloom'' (2021 film), a 2021 Tamil short film * ''Bloom'' (TV series), a 2019 Australian TV series * Bloom (''Winx Club''), the main character of the ''Winx Club'' animated series * ''

Bloom County ''Bloom County'' is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, wh ...

'', American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed * ''

The Brothers Bloom ''The Brothers Bloom'' is a 2008 American caper comedy-drama film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film stars Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Maximilian Schell, and Robbie Coltrane. The film went into wide releas ...

'', a 2009 movie *

Bloom.fm Bloom.fm was a London-based mobile-focused music service which combined free streaming genre and artist based radios, music discovery tools, a local library player and a catalogue of over 22 million tracks. The service allowed users to 'borrow' s ...

, a former music application and streaming service *

Bloom (music venue) Bloom is an alternative music club founded on 16 May 1987 in Mezzago in Brianza Brianza (, , lmo, label= Brianzöö dialect, Briànsa) is a geographical, historical and cultural area of Italy, at the foot of the Alps, in the no ...

, an alternative music club in Mezzago, Italy * Bloom (mod), 2019 game mod created by Bloom Team

Music

Artists

* Bloom, one of the many stage names of Dutch singer

Bloem de Ligny Bloem de Wilde de Ligny (born 7 July 1978) is a Dutch singer-songwriter, producer, visual artist and musician based in the United Kingdom. de Ligny has released music as a solo artist and as a member of various bands, including Fono & Serafina, Po ...

Bloom 06 Bloom 06 was an Italian electronic music group, composed of two of the original three members of Eiffel 65, another group which composed similar types of music ranging from electropop to mellowed rock. They have released two albums, ''Crash Test 0 ...

, Italian electronic duo

Albums

* ''Bloom'' (Billy Pilgrim album), 1995 * ''Bloom'' (Audio Adrenaline album), 1996 * ''Bloom'' (Tasmin Archer album), 1996 * ''Bloom'' (Beach House album), 2012 * ''Bloom'' (Caligula's Horse album), 2015 * ''Bloom'' (Jeff Coffin album), 2005 * ''Bloom'' (Gabriel & Dresden album), 2004 * ''Bloom'' (Eric Johnson album), 2005 * ''Bloom'' (Lights & Motion album), 2018 * ''Bloom'' (Machine Gun Kelly album), 2017 * ''Bloom'' (The McDades album), 2006 * ''Bloom'' (Lou Rhodes album), 2007 * ''Bloom'' (RÜFÜS album), 2016 * ''Bloom'' (Troye Sivan album), 2018 * ''Bloom'' (G.NA EP), 2012 * ''Bloom'' (Of Mice & Men EP), 2021 * ''Bloom'' (Red Velvet album), 2022 * ''Blooming'' (album), album by Ami Suzuki, 2010

Songs

* "Bloom" (The Paper Kites song), 2010 * "Bloom" (Gain song), 2012 * "Bloom" (Troye Sivan song), 2018 * "Bloom", by Between the Buried and Me from '' The Parallax II: Future Sequence'', 2012 * "Bloom", by Caligula's horse from ''

Bloom Bloom or blooming may refer to: Science and technology Biology * Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant * Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system * Jellyfish bloom, a collective n ...

'', 2015 * "Bloom (Return to Dust)", by Code Orange from ''

Love Is Love/Return to Dust ''Love Is Love/Return to Dust'' is the debut album by the American hardcore punk band Code Orange Kids. The album was released on November 20, 2012 through Deathwish Inc. A music video for the song "Flowermouth (The Leech)" was released in Octo ...

'', 2012 * "Bloom", by Gigolo Aunts from ''

Full-On Bloom ''Full-On Bloom'' is an EP released in July 1993 by Gigolo Aunts Gigolo Aunts are an American power pop band, who formed in 1981. Biography Early history The band was formed by middle school students Steve Hurley, Dave Gibbs, Phil Hurley, ...

'', 1991 * "Bloom", by Radiohead from ''

The King of Limbs ''The King of Limbs'' is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was self-released on 18 February 2011 as a download, followed by a physical release on 28 March through XL Recordings internationally and TBD Records in Nor ...

'', 2011 ** "

(ocean) bloom ''Blue Planet II'' is a 2017 British nature documentary series on marine life produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Like its predecessor, ''The Blue Planet'' (2001), it is narrated and presented by naturalist David Attenborough, Sir David At ...

", Radiohead and Hans Zimmer's 2017 reworking of the song that was recorded for television series ''Blue Planet II'' * "Bloom", by Scale the Summit from ''

Carving Desert Canyons ''Carving Desert Canyons'' is the second studio album by American instrumental progressive metal band Scale the Summit. It was released on February 17, 2009, through Prosthetic Records. The album was self-produced by the band and Tom Beaujour. It ...

'', 2009 * "Bloom", by Turnover from ''

Magnolia ''Magnolia'' is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus ''Magnolia'' depends on the taxonomic view that one takes up. Recent molecular and morphological research shows that former genera ''Talauma'', ''Dugandiodendro ...

'', 2013 * "Blooming", by Band-Maid from '' Conqueror'', 2019

Organisations

Bloom (store) Bloom was a chain of mid-grade American grocery stores operated by Food Lion established in 2004. The parent company of Food Lion, The Delhaize Group, announced in January 2012 that it was discontinuing the Bloom brand. Bloom's headquarters were ...

, a US supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC * Bloom Brothers Department Stores, a defunct chain of department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland, US *

Bloom Festival Bloom Festival is Ireland's largest gardening show. It is a large five-day event, held each year in Phoenix Park, Dublin. It was first held in 2007, and is organised by Bord Bia (The Irish Food Board). The 2020 event was cancelled owing to the ...

, Ireland's largest gardening show *

Bloom's restaurant Bloom's restaurant was a kosher Jewish deli restaurant in London. Until its last branch closed in summer 2010, it was the longest-standing kosher restaurant in England, and was well-known beyond the Jewish community. Blooms was under the supervi ...

, England's longest-standing kosher restaurant * Club Blooming, a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Other uses

* Bloom's taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives * "Blooming", a less offensive version of the expletive attributive bloody