solar flare

1. 1.

   a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference

   Synonymsflare

   Broadersolar radiation

Questions about solar flare

What does solar flare mean?

solar flare means "a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference".

What is another word for solar flare?

Close synonyms include flare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is solar flare a common word?

solar flare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.