Sprite commonly refers to:
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Sprite (drink), a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company
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Sprite (computer graphics), 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 o ...
, a type of legendary creature including elves, fairies, and pixies
Sprite may also refer to:
Comics
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Sprite (Eternal), 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
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Sprite comic, 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 co ...
, 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, a specialist detector device using a process known as signal processing in the element
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De Havilland Sprite, a British rocket engine
Vehicles
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Sprite (motorcycle), a historical British make of motorcycle
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Sprite-class tanker, a class of spirit tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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Austin-Healey Sprite, 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, a British two-seat home-built training or touring aircraft
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Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite, 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 ...
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Katreus'' (giant scarce sprite)
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Loxolexis'' (scarce sprites)
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Sedge sprite, a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae
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Sprite possum, an extinct marsupial
Other
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Sprite (lightning)
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Sprites (band), from the U.S.
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"Sprite" (song), by Beat Crusaders on the album ''Sexcite!''
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Sprite melon, 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
''Ceratopteris thalictroides'' is a fern species belonging to the genus ''Ceratopteris'', one of only two genera of the subfamily Parkerioideae of the family Pteridaceae.
Common names
''Ceratopteris thalictroides'' is commonly known as water ...
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See also
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Sea Sprite (disambiguation)
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