Science and nature

• Bloom, one or more flower
  Flower
  A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...
  
  s on a flowering plant
• Algal bloom
  Algal bloom
  An algal bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system. Algal blooms may occur in freshwater as well as marine environments. Typically, only one or a small number of phytoplankton species are involved, and some blooms may be recognized by discoloration...
  
  , a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system
• Bloom (bloomery) (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery
• Bloom, a collective noun for a large group of jellyfish
  Jellyfish
  Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...
  
  
• Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting
• Bloom (shader effect)
  Bloom (shader effect)
  Bloom is a computer graphics effect used in computer games, demos and high dynamic range rendering to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect produces fringes of light around very bright objects in an image, obscuring fine details...
  
  , a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games
• Bloom (test)
  Bloom (test)
  Bloom is a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin. The test was originally developed and patented in 1925 by O. T. Bloom. The test determines the weight needed by a probe to deflect the surface of the gel 4 mm without breaking it. The result is expressed in Bloom . It is usually between...
  
  , a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin
• Bloom filter
  Bloom filter
  A Bloom filter, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positives are possible, but false negatives are not; i.e. a query returns either "inside set " or "definitely not in set"...
  
  , a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set
• Blooming (laser), an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air
• Charge-coupled device
  Charge-coupled device
  A charge-coupled device is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time...
  
   overload aka bloom, property of CCD image sensors, causes charge from the potential well of one pixel to overflow
• Bloom syndrome
  Bloom syndrome
  Bloom's syndrome , also known as Bloom–Torre–Machacek syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive chromosomal disorder characterized by a high frequency of breaks and rearrangements in an affected person's chromosomes. The condition was discovered and first described by dermatologist Dr...
  
  , autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predispose patient to a wide variety of cancer
• Epicuticular wax
  Epicuticular wax
  In botany, the plant cuticle is covered by epicuticular wax or bloom mainly consistingof straight-chain aliphatic hydrocarbons with a variety of substituted groups, serving to decrease moisture loss and decay...
  
   bloom, a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax, occurring on the surface of many fruits
• Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting materials such as crayons, oil pastels, and wax-based coloured pencils
• Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting
• Saponification bloom, a chalky white efflorescence on an old oil painting
• Bloom Energy Server
  Bloom Energy Server
  The Bloom Energy Server is a solid oxide fuel cell made by Bloom Energy, of Sunnyvale, California, that can use a wide variety of inputs to generate electricity on the site where it will be used.It is highly efficient, low cost and has lower polluting emissions...
  
  , a home solid oxide fuel cell manufactured by the Bloom Energy company
• Bloom Festival
  Bloom Festival
  Bloom Festival is Ireland's largest gardening show. It is a popular five-day event, held each year in Phoenix Park, Dublin. It was first held in 2007, and is organised by Bord Bia....
  
  , a gardening show

Places

• Bloom, Kansas
  Bloom, Kansas
  Bloom is a small unincorporated community in Ford County, Kansas, United States. The post office closed in 1992.-History:Bloom was established in 1888. The small town sprang to life as the Rock Island Railroad pushed west. The original train depot is still located in Bloom. Bloom reached a...
  
  , United States
• Blooming, Oregon
  Blooming, Oregon
  Blooming is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States near the Tualatin River, about two miles south of Cornelius. Its elevation is 190 feet . There are several plant nurseries in the area....
  
  
• Bloom, Wisconsin
  Bloom, Wisconsin
  Bloom is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 487 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Bloom City and West Lima lies within the Town of Bloom.-Geography:...
  
  , United States, a town
• Bloom City, Wisconsin
  Bloom City, Wisconsin
  Bloom City is an unincorporated community located, in the town of Bloom, in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. Bloom City is east of Viola....
  
  , United States, an unincorporated community
• Bloom Township (disambiguation), multiple places in the United States:

Music

• Bloom, by Billy Pilgrim, 1995
• Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album)
  Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album)
  Bloom is the third studio album released by Audio Adrenaline. In 1999, the album was certified gold by RIAA.- Concept :Bloom represented a departure from the band's previous efforts into a more straightforward rock with hints of grunge music...
  
  , 1996
• Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album)
  Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album)
  Bloom is a 2004 compilation album by Gabriel & Dresden that collects songs by the duo and various other artists from the Nettwerk label. The first three tracks were originally featured on the EP Arcadia.-Track listing:-Notes:...
  
  , 2004
• Bloom (Jeff Coffin album)
  Bloom (Jeff Coffin album)
  Bloom was the fourth album released by Jeff Coffin, released in 2005. This album was the second album recorded and released with the Mu'tet, a constantly changing group of guest musicians that play with Coffin.-Track listing:...
  
  , 2005
• Bloom (Eric Johnson album)
  Bloom (Eric Johnson album)
  Bloom is Eric Johnson's fifth studio release, released in June 2005. It was the first studio release since his 1996 album Venus Isle almost nine years prior...
  
  , 2005
• Bloom (Lou Rhodes album)
  Bloom (Lou Rhodes album)
  -Track listing:# "The Rain"# "Greatness in a Speck of Dust"# "Icarus"# "Never Loved a Man "# "All We Are"# "Chase All My Winters Away"# "This Love"# "They Say"# "Sister Moon"# "Bloom"...
  
  , 2007
• Blooming (album), album by Ami Suzuki, 2010
• Bloom (song)
  Bloom (song)
  "Bloom" is a song written and performed by Gigolo Aunts. It was first released in fall 1991 as the A-side to a 7" single, backed with "Cope", on the independent Summerville label. After appearing as a track on the October 1992 "Cope" single , it was released again as a single in its own right in...
  
   by Gigolo Aunts, 1991

Entertainment

• Bloom (novel)
  Bloom (novel)
  Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. It was first released as a hardcover in September 1998...
  
  , a 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy
• Bloom (film)
  Bloom (film)
  Bloom is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards...
  
  , award winning Irish film
• Bloom (Winx Club), a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series
• Bloom (software)
  Bloom (software)
  Bloom is a generative music application for the iPhone OS created by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. The software plays a low drone, and touching the screen produces different tones, which play in a loop. If the screen is left untouched, the software will create its own music.Eno and Chilvers have...
  
  , a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Bloom County
  Bloom County
  Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where...
  
  , American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
• Club Blooming
  Club Blooming
  Club Social, Cultural y Deportivo Blooming is a Bolivian football club from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, formed on May 1, 1946. Its home colours are sky blue, white and navy. They play at the Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera . Its main rival is Oriente Petrolero, also from Santa Cruz...
  
  , a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
• The Brothers Bloom
  The Brothers Bloom
  The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 American postmodern caper film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Ricky Jay, Rinko Kikuchi, and Robbie Coltrane...
  
  , a 2009 movie

Businesses

• Bloom (store)
  Bloom (store)
  Bloom is a chain of mid-grade North American grocery stores operated by Food Lion. Bloom was established in 2004 and is an operating division of Food Lion.-Creation:...
  
  , a U.S. supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
• Bloom Brothers Department Stores
  Bloom Brothers Department Stores
  Bloom Brothers Department Stores were located at sites in Franklin and Fulton County, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, from the company's founding in 1897 as the Old Reliable Conn and Bloom Dry Goods Store until the closing of the last store in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1944.The Old...
  
  , a defunct chain of department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland
• Bloom Cigar Company
  Bloom Cigar Company
  The Bloom Cigar Company is an iconic and internationally-known Pittsburgh-based premium cigar store. Founded in 1955, Bloom Cigar Company is the Pittsburgh area's largest retail and wholesale distributor of cigars...
  
  , a Pittsburgh cigar store
• Bloom's restaurant
  Bloom's restaurant
  Until its last branch closed in summer 2010, Bloom's restaurant was the longest-standing kosher restaurant in England, well-known beyond the Jewish community. Blooms was under the supervision of the London Beth Din.-History:...
  
  , England's longest-standing kosher restaurant
• Bloom Energy Server
  Bloom Energy Server
  The Bloom Energy Server is a solid oxide fuel cell made by Bloom Energy, of Sunnyvale, California, that can use a wide variety of inputs to generate electricity on the site where it will be used.It is highly efficient, low cost and has lower polluting emissions...
  
  , a solid oxide fuel cell

Other uses

• "Blooming", a less offensive version of the term Bloody
  Bloody
  Bloody is the adjectival form of blood but may also be used as an expletive attributive in Australia, Britain, Ireland, Canada, Singapore, South Africa , New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Anglophone Caribbean and Sri Lanka...
  
  
• Chocolate bloom
  Chocolate bloom
  Chocolate bloom is a moldy-looking white coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate. This effect is one of the main concerns in the production of chocolate. There are two types of bloom: fat bloom, arising from changes in the fat in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, formed by the action of...
  
  , the appearance of a white, mouldy-looking film on chocolate

People bearing surname Bloom

• Adam Bloom
  Adam Bloom
  Adam Bloom is a British comedian. He has played the Edinburgh festival for many years, once winning a Punters Award. He appeared at the Melbourne comedy festival in 1999 and 2000, winning a Stella Artois award for the former appearance....
  
   (born 1971), English comedian
• Allan Bloom
  Allan Bloom
  Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academic. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University...
  
   (1930–1992), American philosopher and author
• Alan Bloom (plantsman)
  Alan Bloom (plantsman)
  Alan Herbert Vauser Bloom was a British Horticulturist and steam engine enthusiast. During his life he created over 170 new varieties of hardy perennial plants. These and Alpine plants were his specialities. He wrote some 30 books and appeared on radio and television...
  
   (1906–2005), English nurseryman
• Andy Bloom
  Andy Bloom (athlete)
  Andrew "Andy" Bloom is an American former Olympic shot putter, two-time national indoor shot put champion, World University Games shot put champion, and NCAA champion in both discus and shot put.-Early and personal life:...
  
   (born 1973), American Olympic shot putter
• Benjamin Bloom
  Benjamin Bloom
  Benjamin Samuel Bloom was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning...
  
   (1913–1999), American educator
• Bill Bloom
  Bill Bloom
  William A. "Bill" Bloom is an American songwriter and musician.Bloom was a staff writer and producer for Philadelphia International Records and WMOT Records. He co-wrote and produced the album Children of Tomorrow by Frankie Smith, including the 1981 hit song "Double Dutch Bus".- External links...
  
   American songwriter and musician (born 1948)
• Bobby Bloom
  Bobby Bloom
  Robert "Bobby" Bloom was an American singer-songwriter. He is known best for being a one-hit wonder with the 1970 song, "Montego Bay," which was co-written with and produced by Jeff Barry.-Biography:...
  
   (1945–1974), American singer songwriter best known as one hit wonder for "Montego Bay" in 1970
• Claire Bloom
  Claire Bloom
  Claire Bloom is an English film and stage actress.-Early life:Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales...
  
   (born 1931), British actor
• David Bloom
  David Bloom
  David Bloom was an NBC journalist until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39 from deep vein thrombosis...
  
   (1963–2003), NBC journalist
• Davis Bloome, fictional character in the TV series Smallville
• Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom
  Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...
  
   (born 1930), American literary critic
• Harry Bloom
  Harry Bloom
  Harry Saul Bloom was a Jewish South African journalist, novelist, and political activist. Born Solomon Harris Bloom, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg...
  
   (1913–1981), South African novelist and activist
• Howard Bloom
  Howard Bloom
  Howard Bloom is an American author. He was a publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx. In 1988 he became disabled with chronic fatigue syndrome...
  
   (born 1943), American author
• Jeremy Bloom
  Jeremy Bloom
  Jeremy Ryan Bloom is a three-time World Champion, two-time Olympian and eleven-time World Cup gold medalist in freestyle moguls skiing. In 2005, he won a record six straight World Cup events, the most in a single season in the sport's history....
  
   (born 1982), American athlete
• John Bloom (businessman) (born 1931), British entrepreneur
• Leopold Bloom
  Leopold Bloom
  Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in The Odyssey....
  
  , fictional character in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Lily Bloom
  Lily Bloom
  -Career:Bloom is a graduate of the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts where she studied under the direction of Dominique Valadié, Daniel Mesguich, Muriel Mayette and Andrzej Seweryn...
  
  , French actress
• Luka Bloom
  Luka Bloom
  Luka Bloom is an Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the younger brother of Irish folk singer Christy Moore.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1955), Irish musician
• Matt Bloom (born 1972), American wrestler
• Molly Bloom
  Molly Bloom
  Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not, having an affair with...
  
  , fictional character in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Moses Bloom
  Moses Bloom
  Moses Bloom was a Jewish American politician, member of both houses of the Iowa General Assembly, and mayor of Iowa City, United States. Various publications name him as the first Jewish mayor of a major American city.- Biography :...
  
   (1833–1893), Jewish American politician, former mayor of Iowa City
• Orlando Bloom
  Orlando Bloom
  Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom is an English actor. He had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and starring in 2003 as blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood...
  
   (born 1977), English actor
• Rube Bloom
  Rube Bloom
  Reuben Bloom was a Jewish American multi-faceted entertainer, and in addition to being a songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and writer .During his career, he worked with many well-known performers, including Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Ruth Etting,...
  
   (1902–1976), American composer
• Steve Bloom
  Steve Bloom
  Steve Bloom is a photographer and writer. He is best known for his photography books and essays, many of which feature wildlife; as well as his large scale outdoor exhibitions called Spirit of the Wild.-Career:...
  
   (born 1953), Photographer
• Ursula Bloom
  Ursula Bloom
  -Biography:Born in Essex, Ursula Bloom was the daughter of the Reverend Harvey Bloom, of whom she wrote a biography entitled Parson Extraordinary, and she also wrote about her great-grandmother, Frances Graver who was of gypsy breeding. Graver became known as The Rose of Norfolk,...
  
   (1892–1984), English writer
• Verna Bloom
  Verna Bloom
  Verna Bloom is an American actress. She co-starred in the 1973 film High Plains Drifter with Clint Eastwood and the 1974 made for TV movie Where Have All The People Gone? with Peter Graves and Kathleen Quinlan...
  
   (born 1939), American actress, best known for role in Animal House

See also

• Blum (disambiguation)
• Bloombase Technologies
  Bloombase Technologies
  Bloombase Technologies is a company which develops and markets information security solutions to address data at-rest and in-flight threats.Bloombase launched its flagship Spitfire Security Server in 2005 supporting AES, Camellia, SEED and ARIA cryptographic cipher algorithms attaining NIST FIPS...
  
  
• Bloomberg (disambiguation)
• Bloomfield (disambiguation)
• Blumenthal (disambiguation)
• Bloomer (disambiguation)