Flare

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Flare may refer to:

[edit] In culture and the arts

• 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
• Fully Flared, a skateboarding film by Lakai

[edit] 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 in fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease and Lupus erythematosus.
• 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
• In plumbing, the expansion flare on the end of a pipe
• Flare Technology, a corporation
• 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 manoeuvre

[edit] See also

• Flair