zoom out

zoom out

English

Etymology

zoom + out

Verb

zoom out (third-person singular simple present zooms out, present participle zooming out, simple past and past participle zoomed out)

1. (intransitive) To decrease the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a reduced magnification of the image, or a wider-angle view.
2. (intransitive) To manipulate a display (such as a computer screen) so as to make the image smaller and possibly less detailed.

Antonyms

• zoom in

Translations

focus a zoom lens

Chinese: Mandarin: 縮小 (zh), 缩小 (zh) (suōxiǎo) Finnish: loitontaa (kuva)

French: dézoomer (fr) Swedish: zooma ut (sv) Ukrainian: віддалити (viddalyty)

manipulate a display so as to make it smaller

Chinese: Mandarin: 縮小 (zh), 缩小 (zh) (suōxiǎo) Finnish: pienentää (näyttöä)

French: dézoomer (fr) Swedish: zooma ut (sv)