Spark

The word spark has several meanings:

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• 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 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.
• "Spark" is the weekly student newspaper of the University of Reading.
 
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