Spring

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Spring(s) may refer to:

• Spring (season), a season of the year
• Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy
• Spring (hydrology), a natural source of water
• Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a helically coiled tube
• Spring (political terminology), often used to name periods of political liberalization
• Springs (tide), in oceanography, the spring tide

Art and entertainment

Art

• Primavera (painting) ("Spring"), a painting by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482
• Spring (painting), an oil by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Spring, a painting by Christopher Williams

Film and television

• Spring (1969 film) (Kevade), a 1969 Estonian film
• The Spring, a 1989 US independent film
• Spring (2014 film)
• "Spring" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse
• Spring (television soap), a Flemish-Belgian television series

Literature

• Spring (Runelords), a character in The Runelords series of fantasy novels by David Farland
• Spring (Kevade), a novel by Oskar Luts; basis for the 1969 film (see above)

Music

Albums

• Spring (American Spring album), 1972
• Spring (Cyann & Ben album), 2004
• Spring (Tony Williams album), 1965
• Spring (Jon Foreman EP), 2008
• The Blake Project: Spring, an album by Finn Coren, 1997
  • Spring: The Appendix, a follow-up album, 1998
• Spring, an album by Clay Hart, 1969
• Spring, an EP by Subtle, 2003

Performers

• American Spring, a 1970s pop music duo, known from 1971/'72 as "Spring".
• Spring (band), an English band, or the band's only album
• Spring (Belgian band), a group that performed at Marktrock 2004
• Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano, Yuuki Yoshida, Ayaka Itō

Works

• "Spring" (concerto), "La primavera", from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
• "Spring" (sonata), Violin Sonata No. 5 by Beethoven
• Spring (Rachmaninoff), a 1902 cantata by Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Symphony No. 1 (Schumann) (Spring), by Robert Schumann
• Spring Symphony, a symphony by Benjamin Britten
• In Spring, a symphony by John Knowles Paine
• "Spring" (Rammstein song)

Business, government and education

• Spring!, a brand of bottled water
• Spring Airlines, a Chinese airline
• Spring (store), a Canada-based shoe retailer
• Springs Christian Academy, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Springs Global, a Brazil-based corporation
• SPRING Singapore, a governmental department of Singapore

Computing

• Spring (game engine), an open-source RTS engine
• Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems
• SPRING, a GIS and remote-sensing image-processing system with an object-oriented data-model
• Spring Framework, an open-source application-framework for the Java platform

People

• Spring family, English noble family
• Antoine Frédéric Spring, Belgian physician and botanist
• Cecil Spring-Rice, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918
• Dick Spring, Irish businessman and politician
• Dryden Spring, New Zealand businessman
• George E. Spring (1859–1917), New York state senator
• Howard Spring, Welsh author
• Jack Spring, American baseball pitcher
• Richard Spring, Conservative MP for Suffolk West
• Rudi Spring, German pianist and composer
• Sherwood C. Spring, United States Army officer and astronaut
• Spring Baronets of Pakenham

Places

• Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
• Springs, New York, a part of East Hampton, New York, U.S.
• Springs, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Spring, Texas, U.S.
• The Springs, California, U.S.
• Șpring, a commune in Alba County, Romania
• Spring (building), a residential condominium in Austin, Texas
• The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, a museum in Hampshire, England
• Springs, the location of Dubai British School in Dubai

Social science

• Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, a psychology journal

See also

• Hooke's law, for the mathematical model of certain processes
• Primavera (disambiguation)
• Spring Creek (disambiguation)
• Spring Lake (disambiguation)
• Spring River (disambiguation)
• Spring Township (disambiguation)
• Springer (disambiguation)
• Springfield (disambiguation)
• Springtime (disambiguation)
• Category:Spring (season), for articles related to the season
• Category:Springs, for articles related to the water source
• Category:Springs (mechanical), for articles related to the device
• All pages beginning with "Spring"
• Sprung (disambiguation)