Spray Explained

Spray or spraying commonly refer to:

Spray (liquid drop)
- Aerosol spray
- Blood spray
- Hair spray
- Nasal spray
- Pepper spray
- PAVA spray
- Road spray or tire spray, road debris kicked up from a vehicle tire
- Sea spray, refers to aerosol particles that form in the ocean
Spraying, or the creation of a spray
- Spraying (animal behavior), the action of an animal marking its territory with urine
- The use of a spray bottle
- The use of a sprayer
- Aerial application of chemicals
- Spray painting

Spray or spraying may also refer to:

People

Ruth Hinshaw Spray (1848-1929), American peace activist

Places

Spray, North Carolina, a former mill town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, now part of Eden, North Carolina

Arts, entertainment, and media

Spray (band), a British synthpop band
Spray (video game), a 2008 video game for Nintendo's Wii video game console

Brands and enterprises

Spray Network, a Swedish Internet company

Computing

Heap spraying in a computer security exploit
JIT spraying, a specialised version of the above

Ships

Spray (sailing vessel), the ship used in Joshua Slocum's solo circumnavigation in the late 19th century
USS Spray (ID-2491), a trawler in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919
USS Spray II (SP-308), a motorboat ordered delivered to the United States Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel but never taken over by the Navy

Other uses

Spray (mathematics), a type of vector field in differential geometry defined on the tangent bundle of a manifold
Spraying, using an automatic firearm in an attack

See also