high-zoom
|high-zoom|
/haɪˈzuːm/
strong magnification
Etymology
'high-zoom' originates from English, formed by combining 'high' and 'zoom'; 'high' ultimately comes from Old English 'heah' meaning 'tall' or 'high', while 'zoom' is imitative/onomatopoeic (echoic) and was later applied to rapid motion and lens magnification.
'zoom' developed in modern English as an imitative word for a rapid movement (mid-20th century) and was extended to camera lenses and magnification; combining it with 'high' produced the compound 'high-zoom' to describe large magnification, which then became usable as both an adjective and a noun.
Initially the parts meant 'high' (elevated/tall) + 'zoom' (rapid motion/zooming), and over time the compound came to mean specifically 'large optical or digital magnification' in photographic and imaging contexts.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a feature or device (often a camera or camera lens) that offers a high level of zoom.
The new phone includes a high-zoom that makes distant signs readable.
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Adjective 1
having or providing a high degree of optical or digital zoom; designed for strong magnification.
The high-zoom lens let the photographer capture distant birds clearly.
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