Spirit (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Religion and spirituality 2 Aerospace and astronomy 3 Sports 4 Music 5 Fictional works 6 Politics, history, culture and technology 7 Other

The term spirit has several meanings in different fields.

[edit] Religion and spirituality

• A ghost
• In religion and spirituality, the innate essence (soul) of a being
• The Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, in Christianity, one of the three hypostases (persons) of the Triune God
• A spiritual being, or non-corporeal entity found in animism, similar to a deity
• In Islam and the Arab world, a jinn or genie

[edit] Aerospace and astronomy

• The B-2 Spirit, a US Air Force stealth bomber
• Spirit Airlines, a Miami, Florida-based low-fare airline company
• Spirit AeroSystems, an aerostructures manufacturer formed from Boeing's former Wichita, Kansas, division
• The Spirit of St. Louis, the first airplane flown non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean by Charles Lindbergh
• The Spirit rover (MER-A), one of two rovers in NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission
• 37452 Spirit, an asteroid named after the Mars rover

[edit] Sports

• Spirit (racing team), a 1980s racing team with connection to Honda, active in Formula One from 1983 to 1985
• Saginaw Spirit, an OHL hockey team from Saginaw, Michigan
• North Shore Spirit, a Can-Am League baseball team from Lynn, Massachusetts
• The sport of competitive cheerleading, sometimes called "spirit"

[edit] Music

• Spirit (band), a 1960s and 1970s psychedelic band
• Spirit (Spirit album), the 1968 album by Spirit
• "Spirit" (song), a 1994 maxi-single by the seminal acid house group Phuture
• Spirit (John Denver album), the 1976 album by John Denver
• Spirit (Willie Nelson album), a 1996 album by Willie Nelson
• Spirit (Jewel album), a 1998 album by vocalist Jewel
• Spirit (Eluveitie album), a 2006 album by Eluveitie
• Spirit (Preston Reed album), a 2006 album by Preston Reed
• Spirit (Leona Lewis album), a 2007 album by Leona Lewis
• "Spirit," a song on the album Introduce Yourself by Faith No More
• Spirit (Earth, Wind, & Fire album), a 1976 album by Earth, Wind & Fire

[edit] Fictional works

• Spirit (comics), a fictional masked detective in comic strip The Spirit by Will Eisner
  • The Spirit (film), based on the comic
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, a 2002 animated film by Dreamworks Pictures
• Spirits, a television series by ABS-CBN
• "Spirits" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• Spirit (G.I. Joe), a character from the G.I. Joe universe
• Spirit (She-Ra), a character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
• Spirit (Ōban Star-Racers), a character from the Ōban Star-Racers animated television series
• Captain Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka, a pilot from the Wing Commander series of computer games

[edit] Politics, history, culture and technology

• Spirit (Belgium), a Flemish left-liberal political party, forming a cartel with the socialist party SP.a
• Spirit Parser Framework is an object-oriented parser-generator framework for use in C++
• The Spirit of the Laws (1748), by Montesquieu
• Letter and spirit of the law

[edit] Other

Outside these fields, the term spirit may mean:

• Alcohol, or a strongly alcoholic beverage based on distilled alcohol (not wine or beer)
• In medicine, it formerly meant an alcoholic solution of a volatile drug; see tincture
• AMC Spirit, a subcompact automobile built from 1979 to 1983
• Dodge Spirit, a mid-size car built from 1989 to 1995
• Enthusiasm — "We have spirit, yes we do, we have spirit, how 'bout you?"
• Intent
• Purpose
• Esprit de corps — the commonality of purpose, devotion, and honor among members of a group
• Spirit Telecine — an apparatus for film digitalization
• Zeitgeist — spirit of the time
• A classical element representing the fifth element (the other four being earth, air, fire, and water)