Sprite
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Sprites may be:
- Sprite (creature), a class of preternatural legendary creatures commonly associated with elves, fairies, pixies, and spirits
- Sprite (computer graphics), a two-dimensional pre-rendered figure, usually containing some transparency
- Sprite (soft drink), the brand name of a lemon-lime beverage produced by The Coca-Cola Company
- Sprite operating system, an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley
- Austin-Healey Sprite, a British car
- Sprite (motorcycle), a historical British make of motorcycle
- Kitty Pryde, an X-Men member who used Sprite as an early alias
- Shine Sprites, fictional objects from the video game Super Mario Sunshine
- Sprites (band), an independent music group from USA
- Sprite (Rainbowland), mythical creatures from the Rainbow Brite television series
SPRITE may refer to:
- SPRITE (IR detector), a specialist detector device using a process know 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
Sprite may also be:
- One of numerous species of damselflies of the genus Nehalennia
- A spayed female ferret
- An atmospheric electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm — see sprites, elves, jets and other upper atmospheric lightning