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, an autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predisposes the 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
  • BLOOM (language model), 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

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 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, 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

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  • 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 (Lewis Capaldi EP), 2017
  • 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 Baroness from Stone, 2023
  • "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, 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, 2021
  • "Bloom", by Poppy from Flux, 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, 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
  • "Bloomin'", by Park Bo-gum, 2019

Organisations

  • Bloom (store), a US supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
  • Bloomberry, an amusement holding company traded as BLOOM
  • 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
  • Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks

Other uses

  • Bloom's taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives
  • "Blooming", a less offensive version of the expletive attributive bloody
  • Bloom, a concept developed by Tiqqun representing an alienated individual in capitalist society

See also

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