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The term spirit has several meanings in different fields.

[edit] Religion and spirituality

• A ghost
• In religion and spirituality, the innate essence 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

[edit] Aerospace and astronomy

• The B-2 Spirit, the United States Air Force's stealth bomber
• Spirit Airlines, a 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), part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission
• 37452 Spirit, an asteroid named after the Mars rover

[edit] Sports

• Spirit, 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

[edit] Music

• Spirit (band), a 1960s and 1970s psychedelic band
• Spirit, the 1968 album by Spirit (band)
• Spirit (Jewel album), a 1998 album by vocalist Jewel
• Spirit (Eluveitie album), a 2006 album by Eluveitie
• "Spirit", a song on the album Introduce Yourself, by Faith No More
• Spirit (nightclub), a nightclub chain in Dublin, Ireland, and New York's Chelsea neighborhood

[edit] Fictional works

• The Spirit, a comic series featuring the detective of the same name, by Will Eisner
• The Spirit (film), based on the comic
• Spirit (G.I. Joe)
• Captain Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka, a pilot from the Wing Commander series of computer games.
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, a 2002 animated film by Dreamworks Pictures
• Spirits, a television series by ABS-CBN
• Spirit (She-Ra), a character from She-Ra: Princess of Power

[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++
• Spirit is the name of a Norwegian freezine
• Entempo Spirit, an MP3 player
• The Spirit of the Laws (1748), by Montesquieu

[edit] Other fields

Outside these fields, the term spirit may mean:

• Alcohol, or a distilled alcoholic beverage (not wine or beer)
• In medicine, it formerly meant an alcoholic solution of a volatile drug; see tincture
• Breath
• Enthusiasm - "We have spirit, yes we do, we have spirit, how 'bout you?"
• Intent - "The spirit of the law, and not the letter."
• Purpose
• Meaning
• Esprit de corps - the commonality of purpose, devotion, and honor among members of a group
• Zeitgeist — spirit of the time
• A classical element — also known as aether, akasha or quintessence — representing the fifth element (the other four being earth, air, fire and water)

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