Spray or spraying commonly refer to: *

Spray (liquid drop) A spray is a dynamic collection of drops dispersed in a gas. The process of forming a spray is known as atomization. A spray nozzle is the device used to generate a spray. The two main uses of sprays are to distribute material over a cross-sect ...

Aerosol spray Aerosol spray is a type of dispensing system which creates an aerosol mist of liquid particles. It comprises a can or bottle that contains a payload, and a propellant under pressure. When the container's valve is opened, the payload is forced out ...

** Blood spray **

Hair spray Hair spray (also hair lacquer or spritz) is a common cosmetic hairstyling product that is sprayed onto hair to protect against humidity and wind. Hair sprays typically consist of several components for the hair as well as a propellant. Ingr ...

Nasal spray Nasal sprays are used to deliver medications locally in the nasal cavities or systemically. They are used locally for conditions such as nasal congestion and allergic rhinitis. In some situations, the nasal delivery route is preferred for syst ...

Pepper spray Pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymatory agent (a compound that irritates the eyes to cause a burning sensation, pain, and temporary blindness) used in policing, riot control, ...

PAVA spray PAVA spray is an incapacitant spray similar to pepper spray. It is dispensed from a handheld canister, in a liquid stream. It contains a 0.3% solution of pelargonic acid vanillylamide (PAVA), also called nonivamide, a synthetic capsaicinoid (anal ...

** Road spray or tire spray, road debris kicked up from a vehicle tire **

Sea spray Sea spray are aerosol particles formed from the ocean, mostly by ejection into Earth's atmosphere by bursting bubbles at the air-sea interface. Sea spray contains both organic matter and inorganic salts that form sea salt aerosol (SSA). SSA ha ...

, refers to aerosol particles that form in the ocean * Spraying, or the creation of a spray **

Spraying (animal behavior) Urination, also known as micturition, is the release of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. It is the urinary system's form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, uresis, ...

, the action of an animal marking its territory with urine ** The use of a

spray bottle A spray bottle is a bottle that can squirt, spray or mist fluids. History While spray bottles existed long before the middle of the 20th century, they used a rubber bulb which was squeezed to produce the spray; the quickly-moving air siphoned ...

** The use of a

sprayer A sprayer is a device used to spray a liquid, where sprayers are commonly used for projection of water, weed killers, crop performance materials, pest maintenance chemicals, as well as manufacturing and production line ingredients. In agricultu ...

Aerial application Aerial application, or what is informally referred to as crop dusting, involves spraying crops with crop protection products from an agricultural aircraft. Planting certain types of seed are also included in aerial application. The specific sp ...

of chemicals **

Spray painting Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface. The most common types employ compressed gas—usually air—to atomize and direct the paint particles. ...

Spray or spraying may also refer to:

People

Ruth Hinshaw Spray Ruth Hinshaw Spray (February 16, 1848 – February 26, 1929) was an American peace activist. Spray was prominent as a teacher in the public schools and work for the protection of children and animals. She was also active in the work of child labo ...

(1848-1929), American peace activist

Places

* Spray, North Carolina, a former mill town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, now part of

Eden, North Carolina Eden is a city in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Eden is the largest city in Rockingham County and is part of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Triad metro region. As of the 2020 ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Spray (band) Spray is a synth-pop duo from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, consisting of siblings Jenny McLaren and Ricardo Autobahn. Following the demise of their previous band, the Cuban Boys (famous for their Hampster Dance record and John Peel sess ...

, a British synthpop band * ''Spray'' (video game), a 2008 video game for Nintendo's Wii video game console

Brands and enterprises

* Spray Network, a Swedish Internet company

Computing

Heap spraying In computer security, heap spraying is a technique used in exploits to facilitate arbitrary code execution. The part of the source code of an exploit that implements this technique is called a heap spray. In general, code that ''sprays the heap'' a ...

in a computer security exploit *

JIT spraying JIT spraying is a class of computer security exploit that circumvents the protection of address space layout randomization (ASLR) and data execution prevention (DEP) by exploiting the behavior of just-in-time compilation. It has been used to expl ...

, a specialised version of the above

Ships

* ''Spray'' (sailing vessel), the ship used in Joshua Slocum's solo circumnavigation in the late 19th century * USS ''Spray'' (ID-2491), a trawler in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919 * USS ''Spray II'' (SP-308), a motorboat ordered delivered to the United States Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel but never taken over by the Navy

Other uses

Spray (mathematics) In differential geometry, a spray is a vector field ''H'' on the tangent bundle ''TM'' that encodes a quasilinear second order system of ordinary differential equations on the base manifold ''M''. Usually a spray is required to be homogeneous in ...

, a type of vector field in differential geometry defined on the tangent bundle of a manifold * Spraying, using an automatic firearm in an attack