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a citrus ghost that haunts hangovers, fryer grease, and every fast-food cup mistaken for water
means A sprite is a small, mischievous supernatural being of folklore — a fairy or elf-like spirit, especially one tied to water or air; in computing, it also means a small graphic image moved around a screen.
from From the Old French 'esprit,' meaning spirit, which traces back to the Latin 'spiritus' — breath, soul, the very thing that animates. So the dancing woodland sprite and the human spirit share one ancestor: the idea of breath made into a living, restless thing. The computing sense arrived in the 1970s–80s, when programmers borrowed the word for tiny figures that seemed to flit independently across the screen, like spirits with their own minds.
- name origin
- Coca-Cola's grinning 1940s elf mascot wore the name first
- old recipe
- once contained lithium, the actual mood stabilizer drug
- pixel sprite
- video game term for movable 2D character images
- folklore
- a sprite is also a mischievous water or air spirit
- upper sky
- red sprites are real lightning flashes above thunderstorms
sprite lemon-lime soda — the coca-cola company's citrus soft drink launched in 1961, now sold in over 190 countries
sprite the fairy character — tinker bell from disney's peter pan (1953), the most iconic fairy sprite in entertainment