Flare

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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 (ミレーヌF ジーナス, 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 aviation

• flare (countermeasure), an aerial countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles
• a Wing-In-Ground effect vehicle, also known as a flarecraft
• flare, a parachute landing maneuver
• flare, a technique used in Landing an aircraft where the descent rate is gradually reduced until the landing gear gently touches the ground or runway.

In science, technology, and medicine

• flare or flare-up, a recurrence or aggravation of symptoms of a medical condition
• Flare, a help authoring tool published by MadCap Software
• flare (naval architecture), a measure of hull curvature from keel to deck
• flare (pyrotechnic), a luminous device often used for signaling
• flare fitting, an expansion flare on the end of a pipe in plumbing
• Flare Technology, a defunct computer hardware company
• fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLARE), a pulse sequence used in magnetic resonance imaging, a medical diagnostic tool
• gas flare or flare stack, a type of chimney
• lens flare, a phenomenon which occurs when observing bright sources of light
• satellite flare, a phenomenon caused by the reflective surfaces on satellites
• solar flare, an eruption of plasma from the surface of the sun
• Xara Flare a file format in computing

See also

• Flair

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