Sprite

Sprite or SPRITE may refer to:

• Sprite (creature), legendary creatures such as elves, fairies and pixies
• a spirit being
  • a ghost, the spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living
  • water sprites, such as the Neck (water spirit)
• Sprite (lightning), a large-scale electrical discharge that occurs high above thunderstorm clouds

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

Beverage

• Sprite (soft drink), the brand name of a lemon-lime beverage produced by The Coca-Cola Company

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

Popular culture

• In comics
  • Sprite, an early alias of X-Men member Kitty Pryde
  • Sprite (Eternal), a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Sprite, a Chinese mutant and a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
• Sprites in the Rainbow Brite television series
• Sprites (band), an independent music group from USA
• Shine Sprites, fictional objects from the video game Super Mario Sunshine
• Sprite (Artemis Fowl)

Vehicles

• Austin-Healey Sprite, a British car
• Practavia Sprite, a British two-seat homebuilt training or touring aircraft
• Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite, an American sailplane design
• 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

See also

• Sea Sprite