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zooms out

zooms out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 zooms out

What is zooms out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Zooms out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of zoom out.

Words near zooms out in the dictionary

  1. Zoomraids
  2. zooms
  3. zooms by
  4. zooms in
  5. zooms in on
  6. zooms out
  7. zoomusicological
  8. zoomusicologist
  9. zoomusicologists
  10. zoomusicology
  11. zoomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zooms 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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