Bloom

Bloom or blooming may refer to:

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
• 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

Technology

• Bloom (bloomery) (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery
• Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting
• 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 (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
• Thermal blooming, an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams

Art and art conservation

• Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting materials such as crayons, oil pastels, and wax-based coloured pencils
• Saponification in art conservation, a chalky white efflorescence on old oil paintings
• Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting

People

• Bloom (surname)

Places

• Bloom, Colorado, United States, a ghost town
• Bloom, Kansas, United States, an unincorporated community
• Bloom, Wisconsin, United States, a town
• Bloom City, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
• Blooming, Oregon, United States, an unincorporated community
• Bloom Creek (disambiguation)
• Bloom Lake, a lake in Minnesota, United States
• Bloom Township (disambiguation), multiple places in the United States

Music

Albums

• Bloom, an album by Billy Pilgrim, 1995
• Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album), 1996
• Bloom (Beach House album), 2012
• Bloom (Caligula's Horse album), an album by Caligula's Horse, 2015
• Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album), 2004
• Bloom (Jeff Coffin album), 2005
• Bloom (Eric Johnson album), 2005
• Bloom (Lou Rhodes album), 2007
• Bloom (The McDades album), 2006
• Bloom (Tasmin Archer album), 1996
• Bloom (RÜFÜS album), 2016
• Bloom (EP), by G.NA, 2012
• Blooming (album), album by Ami Suzuki, 2010

Songs

• "Bloom" (Gigolo Aunts song), 1991
• "Bloom" (Gain song), 2012
• "Bloom", a song by Radiohead from the album The King of Limbs
• "Bloom", a song by Scale the Summit from the album Carving Desert Canyons

Entertainment

• Bloom (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy
• Bloom (film), award winning Irish film
• Bloom (Winx Club), a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series
• Bloom (software), a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Bloom County, American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
• Club Blooming, a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
• The Brothers Bloom, a 2009 movie
• Bloom.fm, a music application and streaming service

Businesses

• Bloom (store), a U.S. supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
• Bloom Brothers Department Stores, a defunct chain of department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland
• Bloom Cigar Company, a Pittsburgh cigar store
• Bloom Festival, Ireland's largest gardening show
• Bloom's restaurant, England's longest-standing kosher restaurant

Other uses

• "Blooming", a less offensive version of the term Bloody
• Chocolate bloom, the appearance of a white, mouldy-looking film on chocolate
• Bloom's Taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives

See also

• Blum (disambiguation)
• Blume (disambiguation)
• Bloomberg (disambiguation)
• Bloomfield (disambiguation)
• Blumenthal (disambiguation)
• Bloomer (disambiguation)