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, or the like.
- SPARK programming language
- 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.
- The 'soul' of a Transformer.
Common misspellings
- SPARC is a RISC CPU designed by Sun Microsystems.