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subflares

subflares is the plural of subflare.

Meaning of subflare

Noun

subflare (plural subflares)

  1. (rare) A small flare (explosion or light).
    • We have included in our program of measurement examples of brightenings for which the maximum intensity did not exceed twice the intensity of the undisturbed Ha background (0.64 times that of the continuous spectrum). These small brightenings should probably be thought of as “‘subflares” or flares...1953, Gerard P. Kuiper, The Sun, The University of Chicago Press, page 701

Questions about subflares

What is subflares the plural of?
Subflares is the plural of subflare.

Words near subflares in the dictionary

  1. subfixes
  2. subfixing
  3. subflabellate
  4. subflaccid
  5. subflare
  6. subflares
  7. subflavor
  8. subflavors
  9. subflavour
  10. subflavours
  11. subfleet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subflares (page history and authors); subflare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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