Spark
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The word spark has several meanings:
- In electricity, "spark" usually refers to a momentary electrostatic discharge across a spark gap. It can also refer to a continuous electric arc or a corona discharge.
- A spark may be a small airborne ember or particle of glowing, hot metal from a fire, grinding machine, the heat from an electric spark as above, the impact of flint and steel, or the like.
- A butterfly of the genus Sinthusa
- SPARK programming language
- The Spark Jabber client.
- The Spark is a small Trotskyist group in the United States.
- A Spark is the 'soul' of a Transformer.
- Spark (comics) A member of the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Spark is the weekly student newspaper of the University of Reading.
- SPARC is a RISC CPU designed by Sun Microsystems.
- Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a British novelist.
- Spark Records, a record label.
- Spark (Tori Amos song), a single from Tori Amos's album From the Choirgirl Hotel
- Spark Infrastructure is the name of an investor in Australian infrastructure assets.