Thursday, April 5, 2012

Bloom, one or more flowers

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
  • 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
  • Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting
  • Bloom (shader effect), a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games
  • Bloom (test), a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin
  • Bloom filter, a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set
  • Blooming (laser), an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air
  • Active_pixel_sensor or Charge-coupled device overload aka bloom, property of CMOS or CCD image sensors, causes charge from the potential well of one pixel to overflow
  • Bloom syndrome, autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predispose patient to a wide variety of cancer
  • Epicuticular wax 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, a home solid oxide fuel cell manufactured by the Bloom Energy company
  • Bloom Festival, a gardening show