The term bloom usually refers to the general expression describing the aesthetic experience of one or more flowers on a flowering plant. Also used as a metaphor for young people at the peak of their beauty or health. See also Blossom. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees (Genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely but for a short period of time. ...

However, it can also refer to the following:

Entertainment

• Club Blooming is a football club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
• Bloom is a science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy.
• Bloom is a speciality boutique, located in Newark, Delaware.
• Bloom is a 2004 movie based on James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
• Bloom is an Australian trip hop band from the mid-1990s.
• Bloom: Remix Album is an album by Sarah McLachlan.
• Bloom is the name of several albums, see Bloom (album)
• Bloom is a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series.
• Bloom is one of Audio Adrenaline's album.

Club Social, Cultural y Deportivo Blooming is a Bolivian football club from Santa Cruz, founded on May 1, 1946. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Coordinates: , Country Bolivia Department Santa Cruz Province Andrés Ibáñez Founded February 26, 1561 Government  - Mayor Percy Fernández Area  - City 325. ... Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. ... Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966, Princeton, New Jersey) is a science fiction novelist, Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards (an aerospace research corporation), and the science columnist for the Sci Fi Channel (United States) (example below). ... Main Street is the commercial heart of Newark. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. ... Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC,[2] OBC[2] (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. ... Bloom is the title of three albums: Bloom by Audio Adrenaline, 1996. ... Bloom is a fictional character from the animated series, the Winx Club. ... Winx Club is an Italian animated television series created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Rainbow S.p. ... Bloom is the fourth album released by Audio Adrenaline. ... Audio Adrenaline was a Grammy Award Winning Christian rock band formed in the early 1990s at Kentucky Christian College in Grayson, Kentucky, USA. Along with dc Talk, Newsboys and Jars of Clay, they quickly became one of the most successful Christian pop-rock bands of the 90s. ...

Science

• Bloom is the name for an unconsolidated mass of iron metal, mixed with remains of slag and charcoal that is produced in the 'bloomery' process, i.e. the direct reduction of iron metal from terrestrial ores by smelting. The same term is used for a similar mass of iron metal produced in the finery process.
• Bloom is also the name for a section of steel, with the dimensions of 630mm wide, 400mm high and 6m long. Compare with billet and slab.
• Bloom filter is a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set.
• CCD bloom is a property of CCD image sensors that causes charge from the potential well of one pixel to overflow into others.
• Blooming is an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air. See Directed-energy weapon#Blooming
• Bloom is a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin.
• Bloom is a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games.
• Bloom is also used to refer to the whitish covering which sometimes appears on improperly tempered chocolate.
• Bloom is a term used by meat cutters to describe the effect of opening old brownish packages of hamburger meat, the brownish meat "blooms" when exposed to air and turns red again.

General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ... Slag is also an early play by David Hare. ... Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. ... A bloomery is a type of furnace once widely used for smelting iron from its oxides. ... Illustration of a redox reaction Redox (shorthand for oxidation/reduction reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state) changed. ... An ore is a mineral deposit containing a metal or other valuable resource in economically viable concentrations. ... Electric phosphate smelting furnace in a TVA chemical plant (1942) Chemical reduction, or smelting, is a form of extractive metallurgy. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ... Iron tapped from the blast furnace is pig iron, and contains significant amounts of carbon and silicon. ... A billet is the place to which a person, generally a soldier, is assigned to sleep. ... Look up Slab in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Slab can refer to: Slab (computer science) - a unit of storage unique to the NCR 315. ... The Bloom filter, conceived by Burton H. Bloom in 1970, is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. ... This article is not about probabilistic algorithms, which give the right answer with high probability but not with certainty, nor about Monte Carlo methods, which are simulations relying on pseudo-randomness. ... A specially developed CCD used for ultraviolet imaging in a wire bonded package. ... Directed-energy weapon refers to a type of weapon that emits energy in a particular direction by a means other than a projectile. ... Directed-energy weapon refers to a type of weapon that emits energy in a particular direction by a means other than a projectile. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Doom 3 Mini Mod Showing the Bloom Effect (Screenshot by Motoxpro @ doom3world ) Bloom is a shader effect used by computer game designers to create a blurred effect on the bright edges in a rendered scene, imitating a cameras overexposure. ... Tempering is a heat treatment technique for metals and alloys, most often the toughening of martensitic steel. ... Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration. ...

Nature

• A bloom can be a large swarm (or "smack") of jellyfish.
• The phenomenon of algal bloom.
• Bloom on fruit such as plums or grapes is a white or bluish covering. Once thought to be wild yeast cells, it is now known to be waxy coverings to the epithelial cells of the fruit, presumably intended to provide some protection from environmental damage.

School of juvenile herring - many fish have the opercula wide open for ram feeding and you can see the red gills The term swarm (schooling or swarming) is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a behavior of an aggregation (school) of animals of similar size and body orientation... Orders Stauromedusae Coronatae Semaeostomeae Rhizostomae Jellyfish are marine invertebrates belonging to the Scyphozoan class. ... Algal blooms can present problems for ecosystems and human society An algal bloom is a relatively rapid increase in the population of (usually) phytoplankton algae in an aquatic system. ... Typical divisions Ascomycota (sac fungi) Saccharomycotina (true yeasts) Taphrinomycotina Schizosaccharomycetes (fission yeasts) Basidiomycota (club fungi) Urediniomycetes Sporidiales Yeasts are a growth form of eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom Fungi. ... In zootomy, epithelium is a tissue composed of a layer of cells. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

People named Bloom

• Allan Bloom (1930-1992), American philosopher & author.
• Benjamin Bloom (1913-1999), American educator.
• Bobby Bloom (1946-1974}, American singer songwriter best known for one hit wonder "Montego Bay" in 1970.
• Claire Bloom (born 1931), British actor.
• David Bloom (1963–2003), NBC journalist.
• Harold Bloom (born 1930), American literary critic.
• Harry Bloom (1913-1981), South African novelist and activist.
• Howard Bloom (born 1943), American author.
• Luka Bloom (born 1955), Irish musician.
• Matthew Bloom (born 1972), American wrestler.
• Leopold Bloom and Molly Bloom, fictional characters in James Joyce's Ulysses.
• Orlando Bloom (born 1977), English actor.
• Ursula Bloom (1892-1984), English writer.
• Verna Bloom, American actress, best known for role in Animal House

Allan Blooms translation and interpretation, Second edition 1991. ... Benjamin Bloom (21 February 1913 - September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the classification of educational objectives and the theory of mastery learning. ... Bobby Bloom (1946 - 28 February 1974) was an American singer-songwriter. ... Doctors Cave Beach Club is a popular tourist destination in Montego Bay Montego Bay is a city in Jamaica that contains Jamaicas largest airport, Sangster International Airport. ... Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931) is a British film and stage actress. ... David Bloom in one of his broadcasts from Iraq. ... Harold Bloom (b. ... Harry Bloom (1913 - 81) was a South African journalist, novelist, and political activist. ... Howard Bloom (born 1943) is the author of three books, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History; Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century; and How I Accidentally Started the Sixties. ... Luka Bloom, born Barry Moore, is an accomplished Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Leopold Bloom is a fictional character in James Joyces novel Ulysses. ... Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. ... Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom[1] (born January 13, 1977) is an English actor. ... Verna Bloom (born August 7, 1939), is an American actress. ... The Deltas in front of their house Movie poster of Animal House National Lampoons Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of Delta fraternity boys takes on the system at their college. ...

Business

• Bloom is a U.S. supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC.

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Food Lion LLC is an American grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina that operates approximately 1,300 supermarkets in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states under the Food Lion, Harveys, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, and Reids nameplates. ...

Education

• Bloom Public School is a K-12 school located in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India.

See also

• Blum
• Bloombase
• Bloomberg
• Bloomfield
• Blumenthal
• Bloomer