Sprite Explained

Sprite commonly refers to:

• Sprite (computer graphics), a smaller bitmap composited onto another by hardware or software
• Sprite (drink), a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company
• Sprite (folklore), a type of legendary creature including elves, fairies, and pixies

Sprite may also refer to:

Comics

• Sprite (Eternal), a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Universe
• Sprite (manga), a 2009 Japanese manga series
• Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character Kitty Pryde
• Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character Jia Jing
• Sprite comic, a webcomic that consists primarily of computer sprites from video games

Computing and technology

• Sprite (computer graphics), an image integrated into a larger scene
• Sprite (operating system), an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley
• SPRITE (spacecraft), a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission
• SPRITE infrared detector, a specialist detector device using a process known as signal processing in the element
• De Havilland Sprite, a British rocket engine

Vehicles

• Sprite (motorcycle), a historical British make of motorcycle
• Sprite-class tanker, a class of spirit tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• Austin-Healey Sprite, a British car
• Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, a modification
• Practavia Sprite, a British two-seat home-built training or touring aircraft
• Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite, an American sailplane design

Zoology

• Sprite butterflies, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae, tribe Celaenorrhinini:
  • Celaenorrhinus (typical sprites)
  • Katreus (giant scarce sprite)
  • Loxolexis (scarce sprites)
• Sedge sprite, a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae
• Sprite possum, an extinct marsupial

Other

• Sprite (lightning)
• Sprites (band), from the U.S.
• "Sprite", a song by Beat Crusaders on the album Sexcite!
• Sprite melon, a type of sweet melon cultivated in North Carolina
• Sprite (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Water sprite, the freshwater fern Ceratopteris thalictroides

See also

• Sea Sprite (disambiguation)