Sprite
Appearance
sprite or SPRITE may refer to:
- any meaning of "spirit"
- a ghost, the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living
- Sprite (creature), legendary creatures such as elves, fairies and pixies
- Neck (water spirit), a name of a water sprite
Biology
- a spayed female ferret
- Sprite butterflies, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae, tribe Celaenorrhini:
- Celaenorrhinus (typical sprites)
- Katreus (Giant Scarce Sprite)
- Loxolexis (scarce sprites)
- Sprite melon, a type of sweet melon cultivated in North Carolina
- Water Sprite, the freshwater fern Ceratopteris thalictroides
- Sedge Sprite, a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae
Computing
- Sprite (computer graphics), a two-dimensional pre-rendered figure
- Sprite operating system, an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley
Beverages
- Sprite (soft drink), the brand name of a lemon-lime beverage produced by The Coca-Cola Company
- Spite (soft drink), a parody of "Sprite", with the slogan "Obey Your Hate", for Chi-Chi's and McDonald's.
Vehicles
- Austin-Healey Sprite, a British car
- Practavia Sprite, a British two-seat homebuilt training or touring aircraft
- Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite, a US sailplane
- Sprite (motorcycle), a historical British make of motorcycle
- De Havilland Sprite, a British rocket engine
- Sprite class tanker, a class of spirit tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Popular culture
- Sprite, an early alias of X-Men member Kitty Pryde
- Sprites in the Rainbow Brite television series
- Sprite (Eternal), a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Comics Universe
- Sprites (band), an independent music group from USA
- Shine Sprites, fictional objects from the video game Super Mario Sunshine
- Sprite (Artemis Fowl)
- Sprite (comics)
Abbreviations
- SPRITE (IR detector), a specialist detector device using a process known as Signal PRocessing In The Element
- SPRITE-S2, Support and Guidance to the PRocurement of Information and TElecommunication Systems and Service, a European Commission project
Other uses
- Sprite (lightning), an upper-atmospheric electrical discharge that occurs above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm