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The word spark has several meanings:

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 ember 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.
- In the transformer mythos, a spark is an orb of pure blue, glowing, oscillating energy. It is essentially a transformer's life force or soul. All such sparks come from a common origin, the "Allspark," which is the lifeforce of the god-like creator Primus. All sparks are mere fragments of the Allspark which sends them to live in the physical world so that they can learn and live and evolve as individuals so that when each spark rejoins the Allspark, the latter can also learn, grow, and evolve.
"Spark" is the weekly student newspaper of the University of Reading.
SPARC is a RISC CPU designed by Sun Microsystems.