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Flare
Flare
Flare may refer to:
In culture and the arts
• Flare (comics), a female hero who is a member of the League of Champions. • Flare (magazine), a Canadian fashion and style magazine • Flare (breakdance move), a move employed in breakdancing • Mylene Flare Jenius (????F ????, Mirēnu F. Jīnasu), a fictional character in the Macross universe • A Black magic spell featured throughout the Final Fantasy series • Flare (science fiction novel) by Roger Zelazny and Thomas Timoux Thomas • Bell-bottoms are a style of trousers sometimes referred to as ’flares’ • The Flares, a doo wop group • Flare Acoustic Arts League, an experimental pop group led by LD Beghtol • Fully Flared, a skateboarding film by Lakai
In science and medicine
• Flare (pyrotechnic), a luminous device often used for signaling • Flare (countermeasure), an aerial countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles
• In aviation, the rotation of the aircraft’s nose up, used at the final part of landing to arrest the descent rate before touch down is referred to as a ’flare’ • A Wing-In-Ground effect vehicle, also known as a flarecraft • The re-occurrence of symptoms after a period of remission • Solar flare, an eruption of plasma from the surface of the sun • Satellite flare, a phenomenon caused by the reflective surfaces on satellites • Xara Flare a file format in computing • Flare, a help authoring tool published by MadCap Software • In plumbing, the expansion flare on the end of a pipe; see flare fitting • Flare Technology, a defunct computer hardware company • Gas flare or flare stack, a type of chimney • Lens flare, a phenomenon which occurs when observing bright sources of light • Flare, a parachute landing maneuver • Flare (naval architecture), a measure of hull curvature from keel to deck
See also
• Flair
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