# Bloom

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 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 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

## 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