Flare
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Flare may refer to:
- Flare (pyrotechnic), a luminous device often used for signaling
- Solar flare, an eruption of plasma from the surface of the sun
- In plumbing, the flare on the end of a pipe
- Flare (breakdance move), a move employed in breakdancing
- Flare (magazine), a Canadian fashion and style magazine
- Flare (science fiction novel) by Roger Zelazny and Thomas Timoux Thomas
- Flare Technology, a corporation
- Gas flare or flare stack, a type of chimney
- Lens flare, a phenomenon which occurrs when observing bright sources of light
- Satellite flare, a phenomenon caused by the reflective surfaces on satellites
- Bell-bottoms, a style of trousers
- Flare (software), a help-authoring software package
- Flare, a Blue Dragon who serves Steel Brightblade in Dragonlance
- Flare, an aircraft landing manoeuvre
- Flare, a parachute landing manoeuvre
- Flare, the sudden expansion of the tip of a stallion's penis during equine reproduction
- Flare, one of highest-level black magic spells in Final Fantasy
- In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, the re-occurrence of symptoms after a period of remission
The word flare is also used in:
- Xara Flare Open Vector File Format
- Mylene Flare Jenius (ミレーヌF ジーナス, Mirēnu F. Jīnasu), a fictional character in the Macross universe