Bloom

Template:Sister project 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

• 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 (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

See also

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

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