GLARE

Glare

Glare is difficulty seeing in the presence of bright light such as direct or reflected sunlight or artificial light such as car headlamps at night. Because of this, some cars include mirrors with automatic anti-glare functions.

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GLARE

GLARE is a "Glass Laminate Aluminium Reinforced Epoxy" FML, composed of several very thin layers of metal interspersed with layers of glass-fibre "pre-preg", bonded together with a matrix such as epoxy. The uni-directional pre-preg layers may be aligned in different directions to suit the predicted stress conditions.

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glare

Noun

  1. An intense, blinding light.
  2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
  3. An angry or fierce stare.
  4. A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
  5. A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
    a glare of ice
  6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

Verb

  1. To stare angrily.
    He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
  2. To shine brightly.
    The sun glared down on the desert sand.
  3. To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
  4. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

Adjective

  1. smooth and bright or translucent; glary
    skating on glare ice


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