zoominghttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zooming_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezooming, adj.
Revised 2017

zoomingadjective

  1. 1904–
    That zooms (in various senses of zoom v.1).
    1. 1904
      There cometh upon the zephyr of the evening A zooming zip that bodeth ill for humanity. For it telleth that the mosquito hath girded on its Armor [etc.].
      W. B. Nesbit in Chicago Sunday Tribune 12 June (Comic Supplement) 2/1
    2. 1920
      Naturally, steep climbing or zooming turns are a different matter altogether.
      Flight 2 September 963/2
    3. 1943
      Zooming demands for technical books of many kinds..bear witness to the truth of that ancient copy-book maxim, ‘Knowledge is power’.
      Sci. & Mech. Spring 18/1
    4. 1986
      His hands reach out to feel the air currents from the zooming cars.
      O. P. Adisa, Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories 78
    5. 2011
      The zooming aerial perspectives, the gulfs of heavenly light over smokestack New Jersey.
      Atlantic Monthly June 42/2

Originally published as part of the entry for zoom, v.¹

zooming, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zooming, adj. was last modified in July 2023.