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.
- SPARK programming language
- The Spark Jabber client.
- Small Portable Adjustable Real-time Kernel, by Real Time Microsystems
- Spark98 is a name for a specific software distribution – Sparse Matrix Kernels for Shared Memory and Message Passing Systems by David O'Hallaron
- 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.
- The Spark Youth Program in the San Francisco Bay area
- Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a British novelist.
- Spark is a small cat.
- Spark™ is an award-winning two-player abstract strategy game created by John Pursey and Matt Ryan in 1991.
- Spark is a song by Tori Amos.
- A spark is someone who possesses the ability to perform mad science in the fictional world of Girl Genius.
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