Spark Explained

Spark commonly refers to:

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

Spark may also refer to:

People

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

Companies

• Spark, the last-mile delivery service for Walmart
• Spark (architects), an international architectural firm
• Spark (U.S. organization), a Trotskyist group
• Spark Energy, a UK electricity and gas supplier
• Spark Infrastructure, an investor in Australian infrastructure assets
• Spark Networks SE, an online dating company
• Spark New Zealand, a telecommunications company
• Spark Racing Technology, a French motorsport manufacturer specializing in electric racecars
• Spark Unlimited, a computer game developer

Computer science

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

Arts, entertainment and media

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

Books, comics and periodicals

• The Spark (newspaper), the student newspaper of the University of Reading
• Spark (comics) or Ayla Ranzz, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes
• Spark (magazine), the student newspaper of the Victorian College of the Arts Student Union, Australia
• Spark (Matayoshi novel), a 2015 novel by Naoki Matayoshi
• Spark (Twelve Hawks novel), a 2014 novel by John Twelve Hawks
• Spark, the student magazine of Lakota East High School, Ohio, U.S.
• Spark Mag, an online publication founded by the punk band Downtown Boys
• "Spark", in the comics series Girl Genius, a mad scientist with supernatural abilities
• Iskra (Russian for "The Spark"), newspaper of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Films

• Spark (1998 film), starring Terrence Howard
• , a 2013 documentary
• Spark (2014 film), directed by V. K. Singh
• Spark (2016 film), an animated film

Music

• Spark Records, a US record label
• Spark (British record label)
• Spark Sunderland, a radio station in Sunderland, England

Albums

• Spark (Alain Johannes album), 2010
• Spark (Drake White album), 2016
• Spark (Hiromi album), 2016
• Spark (Marit Larsen album), 2011
• Spark (Thomas Leeb album), 2004
• The Spark (album), by Enter Shikari, 2017
• Spark (Whitney album), 2022
• The Spark, by Plankeye, 1995

Songs

• "Spark" (Amy Macdonald song), 2010
• "Spark" (Tori Amos song), 1998
• "Spark", by Assemblage 23 from Compass
• "Spark", by Ed Sheeran from -
• "Spark", by Fitz and the Tantrums from More Than Just a Dream
• "Spark", by The Church from Starfish
• "The Spark" (Afrojack song)
• "The Spark" (Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew song)

Other arts, entertainment and media

• ABC Spark, a Canadian cable channel
• , a 2016 Japanese web series

Naval vessels

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

Other uses

• Spark Point, a rocky point in the South Shetland Islands
• Spark (horse)
• Spark (mathematics), the smallest number of linearly dependent columns in a matrix
• SPARK (anti-counterfeiting feature)
• SPARK (rocket), an American expendable launch system
• 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
• TheSpark.com, website which originated SparkNotes
• Hangzhou Spark, a Chinese esports team in the Overwatch League
• Spark, a colloquial term referring to an electrician
• Spark, the leader of Team Instinct in Pokémon Go

See also

• Iskra ("Spark"), a political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants 1900-1905
• Scînteia ("Spark"), a former Romanian communist newspaper
  • • Divine spark, a Gnostic and esoteric concept
• SPARC (disambiguation)
• Sparks (disambiguation)
• Sparq (disambiguation)
• Sparx (disambiguation)