Bloom or blooming may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology

* Bloom, one or more

flower Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants ( angiosperms). Typically, they are structured in four circular levels, called whorls, around the end of a stalk. These whorls include: calyx, m ...

s on a flowering plant *

Algal bloom An algal bloom or algae bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in fresh water or marine water systems. It is often recognized by the discoloration in the water from the algae's pigments. The term ''algae'' encompass ...

, 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 Epicuticular wax is a waxy coating which covers the outer surface of the plant cuticle in land plants. It may form a whitish film or bloom on leaves, fruits and other plant organs. Chemically, it consists of hydrophobic organic compounds, mainly ...

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 In computing, 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 ar ...

, 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, Demo (computer programming), demos, and high-dynamic-range rendering (HDRR) to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect ...

, a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games * Bloom (software), 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 176-billion-parameter transformer In electrical engineering, a transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit ...

, an open-source large language model

Art conservation

* Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting 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 Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the S ...

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) Bloom is a test used to measure the strength of a gel, most commonly 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 diame ...

, 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) 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, the 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'' (musical), a 2023 Australian musical by Tom Gleisner and Katie Weston * ''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, whe ...

'', 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), 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'', 2015 * "Bloom (Return to Dust)", by Code Orange from '' Love Is Love/Return to Dust'', 2012 * "Bloom", by Doechii from ''

Alligator Bites Never Heal ''Alligator Bites Never Heal'' is the second mixtape by the American rapper Doechii, released on August 30, 2024, through Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records. It was supported by the singles " Nissan Altima", "Boom Bap", and " Denial Is ...

'', 2024 * "Bloom", by (G)I-dle from '' I Sway'', 2024 * "Bloom", by Gigolo Aunts from '' Full-On Bloom'', 1991 * "Bloom", by Of Mice & Men from ''

Echo In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional to the distance of the reflecting surface from the source and the lis ...

'', 2021 * "Bloom", by Poppy from ''

Flux Flux describes any effect that appears to pass or travel (whether it actually moves or not) through a surface or substance. Flux is a concept in applied mathematics and vector calculus which has many applications in physics. For transport phe ...

'', 2021 * "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 ''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'', ''Dugandiodendr ...

'', 2013 * "Bloom", by Twice from '' With You-th'', 2024 * "Bloom", by The Velvet Teen from '' Cum Laude!'', 2006 * "Blooming", by Band-Maid from '' 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 * Bloom (company) an American independent film entertainment company

Other uses

Bloom's taxonomy Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for categorizing Educational aims and objectives, educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. It was first introduced in the publication ''Taxonomy of Educational Obje ...

, a classification of learning objectives * "Blooming", a less offensive version of the expletive attributive

bloody ''Bloody'', as an adjective or adverb, is an expletive attributive commonly used in British English, Irish English, New Zealand English and Australian English; it is also present in Canadian English, Indian English, Malaysian/Singaporean ...