Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A videoconference using Zoom. · Alternative form of zoom (“a video teleconference call.”). · A video teleconference service or website.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software. · Alternative form of zoom (“to participate in a video teleconferencing call”).
From Zoom, a videoconferencing software by Zoom Video Communications; renamed as such (from Saasbee) in May 2012 by Jim Scheinman after the American children's book Zoom City (1998) by Thacher Hurd for ostensibly encapsulating creativity, happiness and exploration. Scheinman had "been saving the name Zoom for a long time."
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