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Sprint car racing
Sprint car racing: North American open-wheel dirt-track racing with fenderless, winged (or wingless) single-seat cars; 410 or 360 ci methanol V-8s, ~900 hp, ~1,425 lb minimum; World of Outlaws, High Limit Racing, Knoxville Nationals.
Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation, also known as Sprint Nextel, was an American wireless and wireline telecommunications company headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, until its 2020 merger with T-Mobile US.
Sprint Z3
The Sprint Z3 is a 3-PRS parallel kinematic machining head with two rotational and one translational axis, developed by DS-Technologie in 1999 for machining aluminum aircraft structures.
Sprinto
Sprinto is a Bengaluru-based SaaS company founded by Girish Redekar and Raghuveer Kancherla whose platform automates compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, serving over 3,000 customers.
SprintRay
迅实科技 (Zhejiang Xunshi Technology Co., Ltd.), trading as SprintRay, is a Chinese dental 3D-printing company founded in 2013 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, which raised over US$100 million in 2022.
Sprints (band)
Sprints are a Dublin post-punk/garage-punk band formed in 2019, led by Karla Chubb; debut EP Manifesto (2021), albums Letter to Self (2024, UK/Ireland Top 20) and All That Is Over (2025), produced by Gilla Band's Daniel Fox.
Sprite (computer graphics)
A sprite, also called an image sprite, is a two-dimensional bitmap that can be positioned and moved independently within a larger scene, most often in 2D video games.
Sprite (drink)
Sprite: caffeine-free lemon-lime carbonated soft drink of The Coca-Cola Company, developed late 1950s, launched US February 1, 1961; competes with 7 Up and PepsiCo's Starry; variants include Sprite Zero Sugar.
Sprite (lightning)
A sprite, often called a red sprite, is a brief electrical discharge appearing 40 to 90 km above Earth, above intense thunderstorms, triggered by positive cloud-to-ground lightning.
Sprite Vallis
Sprite Vallis is a 305 km valley on Ariel, a moon of Uranus, IAU-named in 1988 for Earth spirits; once mapped as a volcanic fissure, now studied as a candidate spreading center.
Spritz (cocktail)
Spritz: Italian aperitif cocktail from Veneto, born when Austrian soldiers diluted wine (spritzen). Prosecco, bitter liqueur (Aperol, Select, Campari), soda over ice; IBA official since 2011.
Sprocket
A sprocket is a toothed wheel that meshes with a chain or toothed belt to transmit rotary power through positive engagement, without slipping, in bicycles, conveyors, and industrial drives.
Sprout Endurance Partners
Sprout Endurance Partners is a $467.5 million venture capital fund formed in 2018 in Menlo Park, California, by SVB Capital veterans Sulu Mamdani, Aaron Gershenberg, and Beau Laskey.
Sprout Social
Sprout Social is a Chicago-based software company, founded in 2010 and public on Nasdaq since 2019, selling a social media management platform for publishing, engagement, analytics, and customer care.
Sprouted bread
Sprouted bread is bread made from whole grains allowed to germinate before milling, as in Ezekiel 4:9 and Essene bread. Sprouting raises phytase activity, reduces phytate, and may lower glycemic response, though evidence is mixed.
Sprouting
Sprouting: germinating seeds (alfalfa, mung bean, broccoli, radish) and eating the whole young sprout. Nutrient-dense but a known foodborne illness vehicle; FDA recorded 52 sprout outbreaks, 1996-2020.
Sprouts (game)
Sprouts, a 1967 Conway-Paterson pencil-and-paper topological game; players join spots with non-crossing curves, games last 2n to 3n-1 moves, and the period-six Sprouts conjecture remains unproven past computed values up to 47 spots.
Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market (Nasdaq: SFM) is a Phoenix-headquartered specialty grocer of fresh, natural, and organic food, founded in 2002 in Chandler, Arizona by the Boney family, with 490 stores in 25 states as of mid-2026.
Sprouty
Sprouty (SPRY1-4), conserved negative-feedback inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase/Ras-ERK MAPK signaling, discovered in Drosophila in 1998; modulate development, and act as oncogenes or tumor suppressors in cancer depending on isoform and context.
SprT-like domain-containing protein Spartan
SPRTN (Spartan, DVC1, C1orf124) is a human 489-aa DNA-dependent zinc metalloprotease that cleaves DNA-protein crosslinks at DNA junctions during replication-coupled and global-genome repair; mutations cause Ruijs-Aalfs progeria syndrome.
Spruance-class destroyer
The Spruance class was a class of 31 United States Navy destroyers of the 1970s, built primarily for anti-submarine warfare and named for Admiral Raymond Spruance.
Spruce
Spruce, genus Picea, 40-50 evergreen conifer species of the Northern Hemisphere with peg-attached needles and pendant cones; includes Norway and Sitka spruce, major softwood timber trees threatened by bark beetles and drought.
Spruce Biosciences
Spruce Biosciences is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2014 and developing tralesinidase alfa enzyme replacement therapy for Sanfilippo Syndrome Type B.
Spruce cultivation and ornamental horticulture
Spruce cultivation and ornamental horticulture: growing Picea species such as Colorado blue, Norway, and white spruce as landscape, dwarf, and Christmas trees; site selection, watering, dwarf cultivar classes, and pest management.
Spruce forest ecology
Spruce forest ecology is the study of forests dominated by spruce trees (genus Picea), covering how these evergreen conifers regenerate, interact with soil fungi, and respond to climate change.
Spruce hybrids and introgression
Spruce hybrids are natural crosses between Picea species where ranges meet, producing introgression, the movement of genes between species; despite hybridization lasting at least 21,000 years, spruce species remain genetically distinct.
Spruce pests and diseases
Spruce pests and diseases are the insects, fungi, and fungus-like organisms that injure or kill spruce trees, led by the spruce beetle in North America.
Spruce Production Division
Spruce Production Division, a U.S. Army command of World War I (1917-1918) under Brig. Gen. Brice P. Disque, using about 30,000 soldiers in Pacific Northwest logging camps to produce aircraft-grade Sitka spruce, reaching 143 million board feet.
Spruce silviculture and timber
Spruce silviculture and timber covers the plantation management, harvesting, and wood utilization of spruce, chiefly Norway and Sitka spruce, used for construction timber, pulp, and tonewood.
Sprung
Sprung (2022) is an Amazon Freevee single-camera comedy created by Greg Garcia. Former inmate Jack (Garret Dillahunt), freed early in the pandemic, joins Rooster, Barb (Martha Plimpton), and Gloria in heists for good; one 9-episode season.