Usually means: Animated graphic for digital media.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word sprite:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sprite: Merriam-Webster
  3. sprite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sprite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sprite: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sprite: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sprite, sprite: Wordnik
  8. sprite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sprite, sprite: Wiktionary
  10. sprite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sprite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sprite: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sprite: Dictionary.com
  14. sprite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. SPRITE (spacecraft), Sprite (Dungeons & Dragons), Sprite (Eternal), Sprite (computer graphics), Sprite (computer science), Sprite (creature), Sprite (drink), Sprite (entity), Sprite (folklore), Sprite (graphics), Sprite (lightning), Sprite (manga), Sprite (motorcycle), Sprite (operating system), Sprite (soda), Sprite (soft drink), Sprite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sprite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sprite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sprite: Rhymezone
  19. Sprite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sprite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sprite: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sprite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sprite: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sprite, sprite: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sprite: CCI Computer
  3. Sprite: Game Dictionary
  4. Sprite (disambiguation), sprite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sprite: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. SPRITE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sprite: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
noun:  A spirit; a soul; a shade.
noun:  An apparition; a ghost.
noun:  An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
noun:  (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
noun:  (meteorology) A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
noun:  The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
noun:  (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
noun:  A spayed female ferret.
verb:  (art, informal) To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.
noun:  A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”) [(obsolete) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.]

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