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, Berry ...
, 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 ...
, 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 th ...
, 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 appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #129 (January 1980) and was co-created by wri ...
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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), an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley
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SPRITE (spacecraft)
SPRITE (Saturn PRobe Interior and aTmospheric Explorer) was a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission concept of the NASA. SPRITE is a design for an atmospheric entry probe that would travel to Saturn from Earth on its own cruise stage, t ...
, 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
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 Gra ...
, a British car
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Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, 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-sp ...
, 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'' (typical sprites)
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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)
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), 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''
See also
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Sea Sprite (disambiguation)
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