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zooming out

zooming out is the present participle and gerund of zoom out.

Meaning of zoom out

Verb

zoom out (third-person singular simple present zooms out, present participle zooming out, simple past and past participle zoomed out)

  1. (intransitive) To decrease the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a reduced magnification of the image, or a wider-angle view.
    • The director asked to zoom out for a wider shot of the landscape.
  2. (intransitive) To manipulate a display (such as a computer screen) so as to make the image smaller and possibly less detailed.
    • You can zoom out on the screen to see the entire document.

Questions about zooming out

What is zooming out the present participle and gerund of?
Zooming out is the present participle and gerund of zoom out.

Words near zooming out in the dictionary

  1. zoominars
  2. zooming
  3. zooming by
  4. zooming in
  5. zooming in on
  6. zooming out
  7. zoomingly
  8. zoomings
  9. Zoomland
  10. zoomorph
  11. zoomorphic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zooming out (page history and authors); zoom out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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