What is "zoomed"

Usage examples of "zoomed".

Tom sat down at the controls of the megascope space prober, snapped on the electronic circuitry, twisted the dials, and zoomed in on Mimas.

The camera zoomed in to try to get a close-up, but the bushes were in the way, and only small glimpses of human forms through gaps in the foliage indicated that they were still there.

Then the camera pinnace, hovering a prudent fifty miles away, zoomed in to the limit of its magnification, and the hoop became an enormous puffy doughnut, bumpy with outside structures, and the stick swelled to an immense cylindrical shaft, festooned with spherical tanks and sporting irregular bulges.

A pair of Cygnans took him then, like a sack of laundry and zoomed off with him.

The screens zoomed in on a segment of the hoop of glowing wire that circled the giant planet above the cloudtops.

When his vision came back, the stars were rushing toward him as the screen zoomed to the limits of magnification.

I was seeing at first, an odd ball of nasty-looking fire that opened up to show stars and planets crowded close together, and zoomed in on one of the planets to show stick figures bounding about that were recognizably meant to be Heechee.

He squinted, and his vision zoomed in on the spot like a telephoto lens.

A car came streaking out of nowhere, zoomed past the woman, and plowed into the giant lizard.

The bees zoomed among its bright and sticky leaves, higher and higher towards heaven, and a rope ladder disappeared among the foliage.

The cart zoomed out of the shadows and down the empty street toward maintenance.

Through the cockpit windows, Tenel Ka watched as the TIE fighter she had helped to repair zoomed low over the Great Temple, seemingly bent on destruction-but its laser cannons did not fire.

The TIE fighter zoomed upward on an impossibly steep trajectory, climbing into the air above the dense green treetops.

The Falcon, white heat rippling from its rear sublight engines, zoomed after the TIE fighter.

Ganymede, which had been a million kilometers away across the system a few seconds before, zoomed toward them, flicked past, and was lost to sight behind them.