Sprite commonly refers to:
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Sprite (drink)
Sprite is an American-owned brand of clear, lemon and lime-flavored soft drink created by the Coca-Cola Company. Sprite comes in multiple flavors, including cranberry, cherry, grape, orange, tropical, ginger, and vanilla. Ice, peach, Berrycle ...
, a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company
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Sprite (computer graphics)
Sprite commonly refers to:
* Sprite (drink), a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company
* Sprite (computer graphics), a smaller bitmap composited onto another by hardware or software
* Sprite (folklore), a type of legendary creature i ...
, a smaller bitmap composited onto another by hardware or software
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Sprite (folklore)
A sprite is a supernatural entity in European mythology. They are often depicted as fairy-like creatures or as an ethereal entity.
The word ''sprite'' is derived from the Latin ''spiritus'' ("spirit"), via the French '' esprit''. Variations on t ...
, a type of legendary creature including elves, fairies, and pixies
Sprite may also refer to:
Comics
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Sprite (Eternal)
Sprite is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in '' The Eternals'' #9 (March 1977), and was created by Jack Kirby. Although physically a child, Sprite is an Eternal, a ...
, a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Universe
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''Sprite'' (manga), a 2009 Japanese manga series
*Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character
Kitty Pryde
Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. The character First appearance, first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #129 (January 1980) and was ...
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Sprite comic
Sprite comics are webcomics that consist primarily of computer sprites from video games. Art assets are ripped from various classic games such as '' Mega Man'' and '' Sonic the Hedgehog'', are edited and combined by amateur cartoonists, and are ...
, a webcomic that consists primarily of computer sprites from video games
Computing and technology
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Sprite (operating system)
Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984 and 1992. Its notable features include support for single system image on comput ...
, an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley
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SPRITE (spacecraft), a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission
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SPRITE infrared detector
The SPRITE infrared detector is named after the process of signal integration carried out by "Signal Processing In The Element". The technique was invented at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern by a team of scientists includi ...
, a specialist detector device using a process known as signal processing in the element
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De Havilland Sprite
The de Havilland Sprite is a British rocket engine that was built by de Havilland in the early-1950s for use in RATO (Rocket-assisted take off) applications. A developed engine with slightly less thrust but a longer burn time was known as the ...
, a British rocket engine
Vehicles
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Sprite (motorcycle)
Sprite was an historical British brand of off-road motorcycle, built by Frank Hipkin, of Hipkin & Evans, trading as Sprite Motor Cycles, initially at Cross Street, Smethwick, BirminghamMotorcycle Sport, September 1964, p.360 Sprite Motor Cycles ...
, a historical British make of motorcycle
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Sprite-class tanker
The Sprite class were a class of spirit tankers that served with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, supporting the Royal Navy during the Second World War. They went on to support British and allied fleet units during the Cold War
The Cold Wa ...
, a class of spirit tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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Austin-Healey Sprite
The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. The Sprite was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation on 20 May 1958, two days after that year's Monaco Gran ...
, a British car
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Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite
The Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite is a small sports car that was produced by the Donald Healey Motor Company at its Cape Works in Warwick, the Healey's Speed Equipment Division in Grosvenor Street, London and subsequently by John Sprinzel Ltd fr ...
, a modification
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Practavia Sprite
The Practavia Sprite is a British two-seat homebuilt training or touring monoplane designed for amateur construction. It was the winning entry in a competition sponsored by '' Pilot'' magazine in 1968. The design had been begun as a magazine-spo ...
, a British two-seat home-built training or touring aircraft
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Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite
The Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite is a United States, single-seat, mid-wing glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York.
The 1-36 was first flown in 1979 and a total of 43 were built by the time production was completed in 1982. The Sprit ...
, an American sailplane design
Zoology
* Sprite butterflies, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae, tribe Celaenorrhini:
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Celaenorrhinus
''Celaenorrhinus'' is a genus of skipper butterflies which are commonly termed sprites. An alternate name is flats, for their habit of holding their wings flat when resting, but this is also used for related genera. They belong to the spread-w ...
'' (typical sprites)
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Katreus
''Katreus'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It consists of only one species, ''Katreus johnstonii'', the giant scarce sprite, which is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo. ...
'' (giant scarce sprite)
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Loxolexis
''Loxolexis'' is an Afrotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
*'' Loxolexis dimidia'' (Holland, 1896)
*'' Loxolexis drucei'' (Larsen, 2002)
*'' Loxolexis hollandi'' (Druce, 1909)
*''Loxolexis holocausta
''Loxolexis ho ...
'' (scarce sprites)
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Sedge sprite
The sedge sprite (''Nehalennia irene'') is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae.
Identification
On male sedge sprites, the thorax is bright green above and black above blue or yellow-green on the sides. His abdomen is dark iri ...
, a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae
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Sprite possum
''Ektopodon'' is an extinct genus of marsupial, and is the type genus of the family Ektopodontidae which occurred in forested environments in South Australia, Queensland and Victoria. The last species of this group went extinct in the early Plei ...
, an extinct marsupial
Other
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Sprite (lightning)
Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of ...
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Sprites (band)
Sprites are an independent new wave/indie pop music group from Maryland, United States. Their lineup is ever-changing, with only the founding members (the husband-wife duo of Jason Korzen, formerly of Barcelona, and Amy Korzen) staying constant ...
, from the U.S.
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"Sprite" (song), by Beat Crusaders on the album ''Sexcite!''
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Sprite melon
The sprite melon is a kind of melon, similar to honeydew, which originates from Japan. Since the late 1990s, it has been cultivated in North Carolina as a specialty crop and has increased in popularity in recent years.
A sprite melon has a roun ...
, a type of sweet melon cultivated in North Carolina
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Sprite (''Artemis Fowl'')
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Sprite (''Dungeons & Dragons'')
* Water sprite, the freshwater fern ''
Ceratopteris thalictroides''
See also
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Sea Sprite (disambiguation)
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