zoom in

verb

1. (intr, adverb) photog films television to increase rapidly the magnification of the image of a distant object by means of a zoom lens

2. to examine the smallest details of a subject

Example Sentences

You then enter the address of your hotel and you can immediately zoom in on the street environment, study the hotel's façade and the height of the surrounding buildings.

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The map enables users to zoom in and see how many people a certain water district serves, and how many violations it’s had in the last five years.

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We zoomed in on the image, but the quality is too poor to make out what the dark shape pictured is.

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As the camera zoomed in, Anastacia strutted down the staircase, her hair in pigtails under a candy striped bucket hat, her midriff exposed by a crop top, in accordance with 1990s pop regulations.

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Roughly 10 minutes later, as a live broadcast from a local news channel zoomed in on civil defense workers sifting through the wreckage with journalists filming nearby, the second missile hit.

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