Spring (season)
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and cust ...
, a season of the year
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Spring (device)
A spring is a device consisting of an Elasticity (physics), elastic but largely rigid material (typically metal) bent or molded into a form (especially a coil) that can return into shape after being compressed or extended. Springs can Energy ...
, a mechanical device that stores energy
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Spring (hydrology)
A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from an aquifer and flows across the ground surface as surface water. It is a component of the hydrosphere, as well as a part of the water cycle. Springs have long been important f ...
, a natural source of water
* Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a helically coiled tube
* Spring (political terminology), often used to name periods of political liberalization
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Springs (tide)
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Tide tables ...
, in oceanography, the maximum tide, occurs twice a month during the full and new moon
Places
* Spring (Milz), a river in Thuringia, Germany
* Spring, Alabel, a barangay unit in Alabel, Sarangani Province, Philippines
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Șpring
Șpring (; ) is a Commune in Romania, commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Carpen (''Árvádtanya''), Carpenii de Sus (''Gyertyános''), Cunța (''Konca''; ''Zeckesdorf''), Drașov (''Drassó''; ' ...
Spring Village, Shropshire
Horsehay is a suburban village on the western outskirts of Dawley in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England. Horsehay lies in the Dawley Hamlets parish, and on the northern edge of the Ironbridge Gorge area.
Horsehay used to hav ...
Spring, Texas
Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the metropolitan area. The population was 62,559 at the 2020 United States cens ...
, a census-designated place
* Spring District, neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington
People
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Spring (given name)
Spring is an occasionally used feminine given name derived from the English word for the season. It was among the one thousand most common names for girls in the United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United St ...
Spring Byington
Spring Dell Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of '' December Bride''. She was an MGM contract player who appeared in films from the ...
(1886–1971), American actress
Arts, entertainment and media
Paintings
*The Spring (La Primavera), by
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (; 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait Human head, heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish ...
Spring (Plastov painting)
''Spring'' (Russian language, Russian: ''Весна'') is a painting by the Russia, Russian Soviet Union, Soviet artist Arkady Plastov. He was assisted by his son Nikolai, who had graduated from the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine ...
, a 1954 painting by Arkady Plastov
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The Spring
''The Spring'' (or ''La Source'') is a large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist Francis Picabia. The work, both Cubism, Cubist and Abstract art, abstract, was exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne of 1912. The Cubist contribu ...
'' (or La Source), a painting by Francis Picabia
* ''Primavera'' (Botticelli) (English translation: ''Spring''), a painting by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482
* ''Spring'', a painting by
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
* Spring (Runelords), a character in The Runelords series of fantasy novels by David Farland
* ''Spring'' (''Kevade''), a novel by Oskar Luts, basis for the 1969 film
Music
Groups
* Spring (band), an English band, or the band's only album
* Spring (Belgian band), a group that performed at Marktrock in 2004
* American Spring, a 1970s pop music duo, known from 1971/'72 as "Spring"
* Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano, Yuuki Yoshida, Ayaka Itō
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for Piano solo, solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown ...
* Spring (company), a computer software company owned by Pivotal Software
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Spring, Inc.
Teespring, known since 2021 as Spring, is a social commerce platform that allows people to create and sell custom products.Rich, NathanielSilicon Valley's Start-Up Machine''The New York Times''. May 2, 2013. The company was founded in 2011 by W ...
SPRING Singapore
The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (abbreviation: SPRING Singapore) was a Statutory boards of the Singapore Government, statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore), Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Si ...
, a governmental department of Singapore
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Dacia Spring
The Renault Kwid is a crossover city car produced by the French car manufacturer Renault, initially intended for the Indian market and launched in 2015. In 2017, an improved Brazilian version was introduced for Latin American markets. Its bat ...
, an electric city car
Science and technology
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Spring green
Spring Green or spring green may refer to:
Colors
* Spring green
** Spring bud, formerly known as spring green
Plants
* Spring greens, edible young leaves of certain plants
* Spring greens (Brassica oleracea), vegetables
Places in the United S ...
, occurs between green and cyan in the visible spectrum
Computing
* Spring (application), an E-commerce platform
* Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems
* SPRING, a GIS and remote-sensing image-processing system with an object-oriented data-model
* Spring Framework, an application-framework for the Java platform
Other uses
* Sacred spring, a revered spring or well
* Spring (building), a residential condominium in Austin, Texas, US
* Springs Christian Academy, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
* Forward or aft spring, a method of mooring a vessel to a shore fixture
Hooke's law
In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force () needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance () scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, where is a constant factor characteristic of ...