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 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, autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predispose patient to a wide variety of cancer

Computing

* Bloom filter, a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set * Bloom (shader effect), a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games * Bloom (software), a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Art conservation

* Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting oil pastel#Use, oil pastels * Saponification in art conservation, a chalky white efflorescence on old oil paintings * Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting#Backruns, watercolor painting

Other science and technology

* Bloom (bloomery) (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery * Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting * Bloom (sulfur), the migration of sulfur to the exterior of a rubber * Bloom (test), a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin * Blooming (CCD), an effect that happens when a pixel in a CCD image sensor is overloaded * Blooming (directed-energy weapon), an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air * Chocolate bloom, appearance of white coating on chocolate * Thermal blooming, an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams

People

* Bloom (surname)

Places

United States

* Bloom, Colorado, a ghost town * Bloom, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Bloom, Wisconsin, a town * Bloom City, Wisconsin, 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), ''Bloom'' (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy * Bloom (2003 film), ''Bloom'' (2003 film), award-winning Irish film * Bloom (2021 film), ''Bloom'' (2021 film), a 2021 Tamil short film * Bloom (TV series), ''Bloom'' (TV series), a 2019 Australian TV series * Bloom (Winx Club), Bloom (''Winx Club''), the main character of the ''Winx Club'' animated series * ''Bloom County'', American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed * ''The Brothers Bloom'', a 2009 movie * Bloom.fm, a former music application and streaming service * Bloom (music venue), 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 * Bloom 06, Italian electronic duo

Albums

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

Songs

* Bloom (The Paper Kites song), "Bloom" (The Paper Kites song), 2010 * Bloom (Gain song), "Bloom" (Gain song), 2012 * Bloom (Troye Sivan song), "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 (Caligula's Horse album), Bloom'', 2015 * "Bloom (Return to Dust)", by Code Orange from ''Love Is Love/Return to Dust'', 2012 * "Bloom", by Gigolo Aunts from ''Full-On Bloom'', 1991 * "Bloom", by Radiohead from ''The King of Limbs'', 2011 ** "(ocean) bloom", 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'', 2009 * "Bloom", by Turnover from ''Magnolia (Turnover album), Magnolia'', 2013 * "Blooming", by Band-Maid from ''Conqueror (Band-Maid album), Conqueror'', 2019

Organisations

* Bloom (store), 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, Ireland's largest gardening show * Bloom's restaurant, 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