Zoom
verbnouncommon in dialogue
To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
verb
- 1
To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
Whether you’re Zooming it in or not sitting down on the job, here’s how to do it right.
These are professional, managerial, and technical workers – an estimated 35% of the workforce – who are putting in long hours at their laptops, Zooming into conferences, scanning electronic documents, and collecting about the same pay as before the crisis.
- 2
Variant of zoomAlternative form of zoom (“to participate in a video teleconferencing call”).
Etymology
From Zoom, a videoconferencing software by Zoom Video Communications; renamed as such (from Saasbee) in May 2012 by Jim Scheinman after the American children's book Zoom City (1998) by Thacher Hurd for ostensibly encapsulating creativity, happiness and exploration. Scheinman had "been saving the name Zoom for a long time."
noun
- 1
A videoconference using Zoom.
I have two Zooms tomorrow: one in the morning and another at noon.
- 2
informalA video teleconference service or website.
- 3
Variant of zoomAlternative form of zoom (“a video teleconference call.”).
Forms
- plural
- Zooms
- past tense
- Zoomed
- past participle
- Zoomed
- present participle
- Zooming
- third person singular
- Zooms
Zoom · To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
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