sprites

IPA: sprˈaɪts

atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)

Examples of "sprites" in Sentences

The sprites are the work of Leo Lentelli; they have a quaint elfin quality that is very engaging.
This amazing video remixes the sprites from the 8-bit SNES Mario game as a physics tutorial on wave action.
At least these did not seem to resemble the more annoying, tinier wood elves that their taller brethren referred to as sprites.
Martin Füllekrug of Bath University described how the team detected radio waves coinciding with the appearance of "sprites" - glowing orbs that occasionally flicker into existence above thunderstorms.
Well you can name sprites and duplicate and you could do iteration by using multiple sprites and global variables - that might avoid the problem of repetitive code clutter due to inability to black box name code and call it by its name on a single sprite