Spark commonly refers to: *

Spark (fire) A spark is an incandescent particle. Sparks may be produced by pyrotechnics, by metalworking or as a by-product of fires, especially when burning wood. Pyrotechnics In pyrotechnics, charcoal, iron filings, aluminum, titanium and metal alloy ...

, a small glowing particle or ember *

Electric spark An electric spark is an abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an Ionization, ionized, Electric current, electrically conductive channel through a normally-insulating medium, often air or other ga ...

, a form of electrical discharge Spark may also refer to:

People

* Spark (surname) * Jessica Morgan (born 1992; formerly known as Spark), female singer-songwriter from East London

Companies

* Spark, the last-mile delivery service for

Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other ...

Spark (architects) SPARK is an international architecture and urban design studio registered in London, Singapore and Shanghai. The studio has designed a variety of projects from complex multiphased mixed-use buildings, city-scale master plans, residential and hotel ...

, an international architectural firm * Spark (U.S. organization), a Trotskyist group * Spark Energy, a UK electricity and gas supplier *

Spark Infrastructure Spark Infrastructure Group is an Australian investment fund which owns and manages a portfolio of electricity infrastructure assets. Spark's principal investments are 49% stakes in both SA Power Networks and Victoria Power Networks; as well a ...

, an investor in Australian infrastructure assets * Spark Networks SE, an online dating company *

Spark New Zealand Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications and digital services company providing fixed-line telephone services, mobile phone services, broadband, and digital technology services (including cloud, security, digital transfor ...

, a telecommunications company *

Spark Racing Technology Spark Racing Technology (SRT) is a motorsport manufacturer specialized in the development and engineering of high-performance electric vehicles and modules. The company was founded by Frédéric Vasseur to become the sole chassis supplier for the ...

, a French motorsport manufacturer specializing in electric racecars * Spark Unlimited, a computer game developer

Computer science

* Adobe Spark, a suite of media applications developed by Adobe Systems *

Apache Spark Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an interface for programming clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally developed at the University of Californ ...

, a cluster computing framework *

Cisco Spark (application) Webex by Cisco, is an American subsidiary of Cisco Systems that develops and sells web conferencing, videoconferencing and contact center as a service applications. It was founded as WebEx Communications, Inc., in 1995 and acquired by Cisco Sys ...

, a collaboration application and platform now part of the Webex Teams application * Spark (application), a mobile email application by Readdle * Spark (cellular automaton), a type of pattern in Conway's Game of Life and related rules *

SPARK (programming language) SPARK is a formally defined computer programming language based on the Ada language, intended for developing high integrity software used in systems where predictable and highly reliable operation is essential. It facilitates developing app ...

, a variant of the Ada programming language that focuses on high-integrity software * Spark (XMPP client), an instant messaging client

Arts, entertainment and media

* ''Spark'' (radio show), a culture and technology program hosted for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation * Project Spark, a "game maker" video game

Books, comics and periodicals

* ''The Spark'' (newspaper), the student newspaper of the University of Reading * Spark (comics) or Ayla Ranzz, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes * ''Spark'' (magazine), the student newspaper of the Victorian College of the Arts Student Union, Australia * ''Spark'' (Matayoshi novel), a 2015 novel by Naoki Matayoshi * ''Spark'' (Twelve Hawks novel), a 2014 novel by John Twelve Hawks * ''Spark'', the student magazine of Lakota East High School, Ohio, U.S. * ''Spark Mag'', an online publication founded by the punk band Downtown Boys * "Spark", in the comics series ''

Girl Genius ''Girl Genius'' is an ongoing comic book series turned webcomic, written and drawn by Phil Foglio, Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company Studio Foglio LLC under the Imprint (trade name), imprint Airship Entertainment. The comic wo ...

'', a mad scientist with supernatural abilities * ''

Iskra ''Iskra'' (, , ''the Spark'') was a fortnightly political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). History ''Iskra'' was published in exile and then smuggl ...

'' (Russian for "The Spark"), newspaper of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Film and television

* ''Spark'' (1998 film), starring Terrence Howard * '' Spark: A Burning Man Story'', a 2013 documentary * ''Spark'' (2014 film), directed by V. K. Singh * ''Spark'' (2016 film), an animated film * ''Spark'' (TV series), a British sitcom

Music

* Spark Records, a US record label * Spark (British record label) * Spark Sunderland, a radio station in Sunderland, England

Albums

* ''Spark'' (Alain Johannes album), 2010 * ''Spark'' (Drake White album), 2016 * ''Spark'' (Hiromi album), 2016 * ''Spark'' (Marit Larsen album), 2011 * ''Spark'' (Thomas Leeb album), 2004 * ''The Spark'' (album), by Enter Shikari, 2017 * ''Spark'' (Whitney album), 2022 * ''The Spark'', by

Plankeye Plankeye (also spelled PlankEye and Plank Eye)1 was an American Christian rock band that formed in 1991 in Orange County, California, Orange County, California. The band's name is derived from Gospel of Matthew, Matthew 7:3 in the New Testament: ...

, 1995

Songs

* "Spark" (Amy Macdonald song), 2010 * "Spark" (Tori Amos song), 1998 * "Spark", by Assemblage 23 from ''

Compass A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or other element, such as a compass card or compass rose, which can pivot to align itself with No ...

'' * "Spark", by Ed Sheeran from '' -'' * "Spark", by Fitz and the Tantrums from ''

More Than Just a Dream More may refer to: Computing * MORE (application), outline software for Mac OS * more (command), a shell command * MORE protocol, a routing protocol * Missouri Research and Education Network Music Albums * ''More!'' (album), by Booka Shade, ...

'' * "Spark", by The Church from ''

Starfish Starfish or sea stars are Star polygon, star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class (biology), class Asteroidea (). Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to brittle star, ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to ...

'' * "The Spark" (Afrojack song) * "The Spark" (Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew song)

Other arts, entertainment and media

* ABC Spark, a Canadian cable channel * '' Hibana: Spark'', a 2016 Japanese web series

Naval vessels

* , a British Royal Navy submarine * USS ''Spark'' (1813), a United States Navy brig * USS ''Spark'' (1831), a United States Navy schooner * , a United States Navy tank-landing ship

Other uses

* Spark Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands * Spark (horse) * Spark (mathematics), the smallest number of linearly dependent columns in a matrix * SPARK (anti-counterfeiting feature) *

SPARK (rocket) SPARK, or Spaceborne Payload Assist Rocket - Kauai, also known as Super Strypi, is an American expendable launch system developed by the University of Hawaii, Sandia and Aerojet Rocketdyne. Designed to place miniaturized satellites into low Eart ...

, an American expendable launch system *

Spark-gap transmitter A spark-gap transmitter is an obsolete type of transmitter, radio transmitter which generates radio waves by means of an electric spark."Radio Transmitters, Early" in Spark-gap transmitters were the first type of radio transmitter, and were the m ...

, a technology used to generate radio waves * Spark or '' Sinthusa'', a genus of butterfly *

Kicksled The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ( or in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foo ...

or spark, a small sled *

Chevrolet Spark The Chevrolet Spark () is a city car manufactured by General Motors's subsidiary GM Korea from 1998 to 2022. The vehicle was developed by Daewoo and introduced in 1998 as the Daewoo Matiz (). In 2002, General Motors purchased Daewoo Motors, which ...

* TheSpark.com, website which originated

SparkNotes SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and phil ...

* Hangzhou Spark, a Chinese esports team in the Overwatch League * Spark, a colloquial term referring to an

electrician An electrician is a tradesman, tradesperson specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, transmission lines, stationary machines, and related equipment. Electricians may be employed in the installation of new electrical components or the ...

* Spark, the leader of Team Instinct in

Pokémon Go ''Pokémon Go'' (stylized as ''Pokémon GO'') is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game originally developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. It uses mobile devic ...

* Spark, the Cybertronian equivalent of a heart in the ''

Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in fiction, alien robot fac ...

'' media franchise