Spring (disambiguation) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Spring may refer to:

Spring (season)
Spring (season)
Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. The specific definition of the exact timing of "spring" varies according to local climate, cultures and...

, a season of the year
Spring (hydrosphere)
Spring (hydrosphere)
A spring—also known as a rising or resurgence—is a component of the hydrosphere. Specifically, it is any natural situation where water flows to the surface of the earth from underground...

, a natural source of water
Spring (device)
Spring (device)
A spring is an elastic object used to store mechanical energy. Springs are usually made out of spring steel. Small springs can be wound from pre-hardened stock, while larger ones are made from annealed steel and hardened after fabrication...

, a mechanical device that stores energy
Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a helically-coiled tube
Springs (tide), in oceanography, the spring tide

Art

Primavera (painting)
Primavera (painting)
Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values as "[o]ne of the most popular paintings in Western art"...

("Spring"), a painting by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482
Spring (painting)
Spring (painting)
Spring is an 1894 oil painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, currently in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California....

, an oil by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Spring, a painting by Christopher Williams

Film and television

Spring (film)
Spring (film)
The Spring directed by Arvo Kruusement is a film adaptation of Oskar Luts popular novel bearing the same title. . The movie received the first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists. In 1970 the movie sold 558,000 tickets in...

(Kevade), a 1969 Estonian film
The Spring
The Spring
The Spring is a 1989 independent movie, not available in video, about archaeologists Andy and Matty who discover a diary written by a member of Ponce de León's exploration party, which they believe can lead them to the Fountain of Youth...

, a 1989 film about the Fountain of Youth
"Spring" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse
Spring (television soap)
Spring (television soap)
Spring was a Flemish television soap made by Studio 100 for children's channel Ketnet. Six seasons were taped between 2002 and 2007 during the summer period.-Season 1:...

, a Flemish-Belgian television series

Literature

Spring (Runelords), a character in The Runelords series of fantasy novels by David Farland
Spring (Kevade), a novel by Oskar Luts
Oskar Luts
-Biography:Oskar Luts was born into a middle-class family in central Estonia, at that time in the government of Livonia . He attended Änkküla village school in 1894. He went to Palamuse Parish parish school in Jõgeva County, attending from 1895–1899. From 1899–1902 he studied at the Tartu...

; basis for the 1969 film (see below)

Music

Works

"Spring" (concerto), "La primavera", from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
"Spring" (sonata), Violin Sonata No. 5 by Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)
Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)
Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 was the first symphonic work composed by Robert Schumann. Although Schumann made some "symphonic attempts" in the autumn of 1840 soon after he married his beloved Clara Wieck, he did not compose his First Symphony until early 1841...

(Spring), by Robert Schumann
Spring Symphony
Spring Symphony
The Spring Symphony is Benjamin Britten's Opus 44. It is dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was premiered in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on Thursday 14 July 1949 as part of the Holland Festival, when the composer was 35...

, a symphony by Benjamin Britten
In Spring
In Spring
Symphony No. 2 in A major, subtitled Im Frühling or In Spring, is the second symphony by American composer John Knowles Paine.-History:...

, a symphony by John Knowles Paine
"Spring" (Rammstein song)

Albums

Spring (Cyann & Ben album)
Spring (Cyann & Ben album)
Spring is the debut full-length album by Cyann & Ben. It was released on February 17, 2004 on Gooom Disquesin France and Locust Music in North America.-Track listing:#"Buick to the Moon"#"I Can't Pretend Anymore"#"Selected Ambient Work"#"Siren Song"...
Spring (Finn Coren album)
- Spring: The Appendix
  Spring: The Appendix
  Spring: The Appendix is an album by Norwegian musician Finn Coren, and is the follow-up to 1997's Spring. As with its predecessor, all words are by William Blake and music by Coren.-Track listing:# "Spring"# "The Little Vagabond"# "Nurse's Song"...
  
  , a follow-up album
Spring (Jon Foreman EP)
Spring (Jon Foreman EP)
Spring is the third in a comprehensive 4-EP collection released by Jon Foreman, the singer/songwriter of the San Diego rock band Switchfoot. It was released as a digital download on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, peaking at #12 on the overall iTunes albums chart, and #2 on the "Rock" albums chart...
Spring, an album by Clay Hart
Clay Hart
Clay Hart is an American country music singer and guitarist who was a member of The Lawrence Welk Show television program from 1969 to 1975.-Biography:...
Spring, an EP by Subtle
Subtle (music)
Subtle is a music group consisting of Adam Drucker, Jeffrey Logan, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort, and Marty Dowers. Although both Adam and Jeff have strong ties to the anticon. music collective, Subtle is not on the Anticon roster. Subtle started as an Oakland-based band in 2001...

Performers

Spring (band)
Spring (band)
Spring were a Leicester-based British progressive rock band that represented the early 1970s progressive rock movement. A one-shot band, it recorded only one album in its career, a self-titled LP released in 1971...

, an English band, or the band's only album
Spring (American band), a 1970s pop music duo, known outside the U.S. as American Spring
Spring (Belgian band), a group that performed at Marktrock 2004
Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano
Aya Hirano
from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. She was contracted to Space Craft Produce, a branch of the Space Craft Group, for her voice acting career, and for her singing career,...

, Yuuki Yoshida, Ayaka Itō

Business, government and education

Spring!
Spring!
Spring! is a brand of water produced by CCDA Waters, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company."Spring!" and "It's only natural" are both trademark phrases for the product.Bottled by CCDA Waters, L.L.C, in Milesburg, PA...

, a brand of bottled water
Spring Airlines
Spring Airlines
Spring Airlines is a budget airline with its headquarters in the Homeyo Hotel in Changning District, Shanghai, People's Republic of China...

, a Chinese airline
Spring (store)
Spring (store)
Spring is a retailer of men’s and women’s shoes, with locations primarily found in shopping malls.-History:Aldo Bensadoun, founder of Aldo Groupe, founded Spring in 1991 under the name Transit, with locations primarily in Canada. With the expansion of the chain across the United States, the name of...

, a Canada-based shoe retailer
Springs Christian Academy
Springs Christian Academy
Springs Christian Academy is a private Christian school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It has two campuses. The first campus serves students from Nursery to Grade 6 and the second campus serves students from Grade 7 to Grade 12. The school was founded in 1989 by Springs of Living Water Church in...

, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
SPRING Singapore, a governmental department of Singapore

Computing

Spring (game engine), an open-source RTS engine
Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems
SPRING
SPRING
SPRING is a freeware GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment...

, a GIS and remote-sensing image-processing system with an object-oriented data-model
Spring Framework, an open-source application-framework for the Java platform

People

Antoine Frédéric Spring
Antoine Frédéric Spring
Antoine Frédéric Spring was a German-born, Belgian physician and botanist.Trained as a physician, he was a professor of physiology and pathology at the University of Liège. As a botanist he specialized in research of Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae...

, Belgian physician and botanist
Dick Spring
Dick Spring
Richard "Dick" Spring is an Irish businessman and former politician. He was first elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála in 1981 and retained his seat until 2002. He became leader of the Labour Party in 1982, and held this position until 1997...

, Irish businessman and politician
Dryden Spring
Dryden Spring
Sir Dryden Thomas Spring, DSc is a New Zealand businessman, who was appointed a knight in 1994 for his services to the dairy industry and to New Zealand.He was awarded a New Zealand Commemoration Medal in 1990...

, New Zealand businessman
Howard Spring
Howard Spring
Howard Spring was a Welsh author.He began his writing career as a journalist, but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels, the most successful of which was Fame is the Spur , which has been both a major film, starring Michael Redgrave, and a BBC television series , starring Tim...

, Welsh author
Jack Spring
Jack Spring
Jack Russell Spring is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. The , left-hander played for the Philadelphia Phillies , Boston Red Sox , Washington Senators , Los Angeles Angels , Chicago Cubs , St...

, American baseball pitcher
Richard Spring
Richard Spring
Richard John Grenville Spring, Baron Risby is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds from 1992 to 1997, and for West Suffolk from 1997 to 2010....

, Conservative MP for Suffolk West
Rudi Spring
Rudi Spring
Rudi Spring is a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic. He is known for vocal compositions on texts by poets and his own, and for chamber music such as his three Chamber Symphonies.- Professional career :...

, German pianist and composer
Sherwood C. Spring, United States Army officer and astronaut
Cecil Spring-Rice
Cecil Spring-Rice
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice GCMG GCVO , was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.-Early life:...

, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States 1912 to 1918
Spring Baronets
Spring Baronets
The Spring Baronetcy, of Pakenham in the County of Suffiolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England.-History:The Spring family were major landowners in East Anglia between the late 15th and the early 18th centuries, when the family’s wealth and status began to go into decline...

of Pakenham
Spring, Mark Adley, actor who appeared in the 1987 film The Last of England

Places

Springs, Gauteng
Springs, Gauteng
Springs is a city on the East Rand in the Gauteng province of South Africa.It lies 50 km east of Johannesburg. The name of the city derives from the large number of springs in the area; it has a population of more than 200,000, and is situated at 5,340 ft a.s.l...

, South Africa
Springs, New York
Springs, New York
Springs is a census-designated place roughly corresponding to the hamlet by the same name in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the hamlet population was 4,950...

, a part of East Hampton, New York, U.S.
Springs, Pennsylvania
Springs, Pennsylvania
Springs is an unincorporated community in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. Springs is known for its Spring Folk Festival, which occurs annually in October, its museum and its farmers' market. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical...

, U.S.
Spring, Texas
Spring, Texas
Spring, Texas is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, north of Downtown Houston. The population was 54,298 at the 2010 census...

, U.S.
The Springs, California
The Springs, California
The Springs is a locality in Humboldt County, California. It is located south-southeast of Arcata, at an elevation of ....

, U.S.
Şpring
SPRING
SPRING is a freeware GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment...

, a commune in Alba County, Romania
The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, a museum in Hampshire, England

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