zoomablehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoomable_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoomable, adj.
First published 2017

zoomableadjective

  1. 1.
    1972–
    Of a camera, lens, etc.: having an adjustable focal length, so as to allow different degrees of magnification. Cf. zoom v.1 3.
    In quot. 1972 in the context of producing a hologram.
    1. 1972
      Such a system may have rather unique properties in these days of tunable lasers, in that it provides zoomable image magnification to be achieved simply by a change in the object illumination wavelength.
      H. W. Rose, Holographic Lens Syst. (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State Univ.) 232
    2. 1991
      The department-store/sporting-goods-type spotting scopes with a fixed single eyepiece [zoomable or not] tend to have exit pupils so small that they're not much good for night-time use.
      Telescopes in sci.astro 14 November (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 11 Nov. 2016)
    3. 1999
      My personal favorite weapon is the sniper rifle with zoomable scope.
      Spark 1 February 15/3
    4. 2014
      On the rover's head will be..[a] zoomable camera that will take short movies as the rover drives.
      New Scientist (Nexis) 9 August
  2. 2.
    1984–
    Computing. That allows a user to enlarge or decrease the size of an electronic image, document, etc.
    1. 1984
      In addition to supporting multiple viewports each independently pannable and zoomable, the system has hardware generated grids.
      Proceedings Amer. Control Conf. 653/2
    2. 1992
      All but one of them (WordPerfect ) give you zoomable editing views so that you can see parts of pages close up.
      Home Office Computing May 78/2
    3. 2013
      Google's innovation was the web interface: its map was dragable, zoomable, panable.
      New York Times Magazine 15 December 44/3

zoomable, adj. was first published in June 2017.

zoomable, adj. was last modified in December 2023.