Bloom

Bloom or blooming may refer to:

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)

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

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 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 Gigolo Aunts from Full-On Bloom, 1991
 * "Bloom", by Of Mice & Men from Echo, 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

Organisations

 * Bloom (store), a US supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
 * 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

Other uses

 * Bloom's taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives
 * "Blooming", a less offensive version of the expletive attributive bloody