SPARK

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.

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Corporate usage

★ Spark Infrastructure is the name of an investor in Australian infrastructure assets.

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★ Sparks