Spark

Spark commonly refers to:

Spark (fire), a small glowing particle or ember
Electric spark, a form of electrical discharge

Spark may also refer to:

Places

Spark Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands

People

Spark (surname)
Jessica Morgan (born 1992; formerly known as Spark), female singer-songwriter from East London

Companies and organisations

Spark Energy, a UK electricity and gas supplier
Spark Unlimited, a computer game developer
Spark Infrastructure, an investor in Australian infrastructure assets
Spark (U.S. organization), a U.S. Trotskyist group
Spark New Zealand, a telecommunications company

Computer science

Adobe Spark, a suite of media applications developed by Adobe Systems
Cisco Spark (application), a collaboration application and platform now part of the Webex Teams application
Spark (application), a mobile email application for iOS devices by Readdle
SPARK (programming language), a variant of the Ada programming language which focuses on high integrity software
Spark (software), a web application framework.
Spark (cellular automaton), a type of pattern in Conway's Game of Life and related rules
Spark (XMPP client), an instant messaging client
Apache Spark, a cluster computing framework

Entertainment

ABC Spark, a Canadian cable channel
Spark (radio show), a culture and technology program hosted for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Project Spark, a "game maker" video game

Cartoons and comics

Spark (comics) or Ayla Ranzz, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes
In the comics series Girl Genius, a "spark" is a mad scientist with supernatural abilities

Film

Spark (1998 film), a film starring Terrence Howard
Spark: A Burning Man Story, a 2013 documentary film
Spark (2014 film), a film directed by V. K. Singh
Spark (2016 film), an animated film

Music

Spark Records, a record label
Spark Sunderland, a radio station in Sunderland, England

Albums

Spark (Thomas Leeb album), 2004
Spark (Marit Larsen album), 2011
Spark (Alain Johannes album), 2010
Spark (Drake White album), 2016
The Spark (Enter Shikari album), 2017

Songs

"Spark" (Tori Amos song), 1998
"Spark" (Amy Macdonald song), 2010
"Spark", a song by Assemblage 23 from Compass
"The Spark" (song), by Dutch producer Afrojack

Publications

Spark*, the student newspaper of the University of Reading
Spark (magazine), an Australian student publication
Spark, an anthology founded by the California State Summer School for the Arts

Ships and submarines

HMS Spark, a British Royal Navy submarine
USS Spark (1813), a United States Navy brig ship
USS Spark (1831), a United States Navy schooner
USS Spark (IX-196), a United States Navy tank-landing ship

Other uses

Spark (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
Spark (mathematics), the smallest number of linearly dependent columns in a matrix
Spark-gap transmitter, a technology used to generate radio waves
Spark or Sinthusa, a genus of butterfly
Kicksled or spark, a small sled
Chevrolet Spark

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gollark: Why *humans*, then?

gollark: Can you objectively prove that they have some sort of moral worth, though?

gollark: I see. Again, I'd say they aren't a person/child/whatever (but are a human body) at the time.

gollark: But you were saying that people should *not* have sex if they don't want children. Which stops those children who would otherwise exist from existing.