Sunburst A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunbur ...

is a graphic design term for the pattern seen in fanlights and other architectural elements. Sunburst may also refer to:

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Sunburst (finish) Sunburst is a style of finishing for musical instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars and electric basses. At the center of a sunburst-finished surface is an area of lighter color (often showing the wood grain underneath) that darkens ...

, a type of finish for musical instruments * Sunburst (symbol), a rayed solar symbol or rayed halo ** the

Argead Star The Vergina Sun (), also known as the Star of Vergina, Vergina Star or Argead Star, is a rayed solar symbol first appearing in ancient Greek art of the period between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. The Vergina Sun proper has sixteen triangular ra ...

in classical Greek iconography **

Sunburst flag The sunburst flag () is an Irish flag associated with early Irish nationalism, and more recently, youth wings of Irish republican groups such as Na Fianna Éireann. The flag is first thought to have been used in 1858 by the Irish Republican Bro ...

, an Irish Republican flag * a

tie-dye Tie-dye is a term used to describe a number of resist dyeing techniques and the resulting dyed products of these processes. The process of tie-dye typically consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment, before binding ...

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* ''Sunburst'' (Eddie Henderson album), 1975 * ''Sunburst'' (Loudness album), 2021 *

Sunburst (band) Sunburst was an African band that was formed in 1970 by Zairean guitarist Hembi Flory Kongo. One of its members was Eric Allandale who used to be with The Foundations, and previously the New Orleans Knights. The band is a part of African music ...

, an African rock band formed in 1970 * ''Sunburst'' (EP), a 1990 EP by Chapterhouse * ''Sunburst'' (film), a 1975 American film directed by James Polakof * Sunburst (Magic: The Gathering), an ability used in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' card game *

Sunburst Award The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual literary award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection, first awarded in 2001. A young adult category was created in 2008, to differentiate from ad ...

, a Canadian science fiction award * ''Sunburst'', a novel by

Phyllis Gotlieb Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 July 14, 2009) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet. Biography Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 ...

* Sunburst, a character in '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''

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* Sunburst (community), in California, US *

Sunburst (dinghy) The Sunburst is a two-handed, centreboard sailing dinghy. It was designed in the late 1960s in New Zealand by John Balmain Brooke, where it was to become one of the most popular classes of boat. It is popular as a craft for teaching beginner ...

, a dinghy sailing boat *

Sunburst, Montana Sunburst is a town in Toole County, Montana, United States. The population was 333 in the 2020 census. It is roughly 30 miles north of Shelby and is near the Canada–US border. History Sunburst has its origins as a farming community and lat ...

, a town in the United States *

Sunburst chart A pie chart (or a circle chart) is a circular statistical graphic which is divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each slice (and consequently its central angle and area) is proportional to t ...

* Airmass Sunburst, ultralight aircraft * Sunburst, the nickname of the

40th Infantry Division (United States) The 40th Infantry Division ("Sunburst Division") is a modular division of the California Army National Guard. Following the Army's Army National Guard#List of units undergoing transformation, modularization in the mid-2000s, the division has bec ...

* Sunburst, a common name for plants in the genus ''

Pseudobahia ''Pseudobahia'' is a genus of California plants in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within t ...

'' * SUNBURST, a name given to a malware payload implicated in the

2020 United States federal government data breach In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of ...

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