Jet, Jets, or The Jet(s) may refer to:

Aerospace

Jet aircraft A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by jet engines. Whereas the engines in propeller-powered aircraft generally achieve their maximum efficiency at much lower speeds and altitudes, je ...

, an aircraft propelled by jet engines **

Jet airliner A jet airliner or jetliner is an airliner powered by jet engines (passenger jet aircraft). Airliners usually have two or four jet engines; three-engined designs were popular in the 1970s but are less common today. Airliners are commonly cl ...

Jet engine A jet engine is a type of reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this broad definition can include rocket, Pump-jet, water jet, and hybrid propulsion, the term ...

Jet fuel Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines. It is colorless to straw-colored in appearance. The most commonly used fuels for commercial a ...

Jet Airways Jet Airways (India) Ltd is an Indian airline based in Delhi NCR, with a training and developmental center in Mumbai. Incorporated in April 1992 as a limited liability company, the airline began operations as an air taxi operator in 1993. It b ...

, an Indian airline *

Wind Jet Wind Jet S.p.A. was an Italian low-cost airline based in Catania, Italy. It was founded in 2003, following the disbandment of Air Sicilia by current CEO Antonino Pulvirenti, also owner of football team Calcio Catania. On 11 August 2012 the ai ...

(ICAO: JET), an Italian airline *

Journey to Enceladus and Titan Journey to Enceladus and Titan (JET) is an astrobiology mission concept to assess the habitability potential of Enceladus and Titan, moons of Saturn. The JET orbiter concept was proposed in 2011 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to NASA's Discove ...

(JET), a proposed astrobiology orbiter to Saturn *

Jet pack A jet pack, rocket belt, or rocket pack is a device worn on the back which uses jets of gas or liquid to propel the wearer through the air. The concept has been present in science fiction for almost a century and became widespread in the 1960s. ...

, a backpack personal flying device containing a jet motor *

Fighter jet Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...

, a military aircraft

Aircraft

Business jet A business jet, private jet, or bizjet is a jet aircraft designed for transporting small groups of people. Business jets may be adapted for other roles, such as the evacuation of casualties or express parcel deliveries, and some are used by pub ...

Boeing Business Jet Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) are versions of Boeing's jet airliners with modifications to serve the private, head of state and corporate jet market. In 1996, Phil Condit, president of The Boeing Company, and Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of Genera ...

Cessna CitationJet/M2 The Cessna CitationJet/CJ/M2 (also known as the Model 525) are a series of light business jets built by Cessna, and are part of the Citation family. Launched in October 1989, the first flight of the Model 525 was on April 29, 1991. Federal Av ...

Very light jet A very light jet (VLJ), entry-level jet or personal jet, previously known as a microjet, is a category of small business jets seating four to eight people. VLJs are considered the lightest business jets and are approved for single-pilot operati ...

Cirrus Vision SF50 The Cirrus Vision SF50, also known as the Vision Jet, is a single-engine very light jet designed and produced by Cirrus Aircraft of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. After receiving deposits starting in 2006, Cirrus unveiled an aircraft mock ...

, originally called "The-Jet by Cirrus" **

Eclipse 400 The Eclipse 400 (formerly Eclipse Concept Jet, or ECJ) is a single-engine very light jet that was designed by Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A development of the Eclipse 500, the Eclipse 400 was cancelled when the company went ...

, originally called "Eclipse Concept Jet" **

Honda HA-420 HondaJet The Honda HA-420 HondaJet is a light business jet produced by the Honda Aircraft Company of Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Original concepts of the aircraft started in 1997 and were completed in 1999. It took its maiden flight on De ...

Piper PA-47 PiperJet The Piper PA-47 "PiperJet" was a single-engined very light jet (VLJ) that was intended to be developed and built by Piper Aircraft. However, following a change of ownership at Piper, it was decided to redesign the aircraft as the PiperJet Alta ...

Other areas of science, math and technology

Jet (fluid) A jet is a stream of fluid that is projected into a surrounding medium, usually from some kind of a nozzle, aperture or orifice. Jets can travel long distances without dissipating. Jet fluid has higher momentum compared to the surrounding f ...

, a coherent stream of fluid that is projected into a surrounding medium, usually from some kind of a nozzle or aperture *

Jet (mathematics) In mathematics, the jet is an operation that takes a differentiable function ''f'' and produces a polynomial, the truncated Taylor polynomial of ''f'', at each point of its domain. Although this is the definition of a jet, the theory of jets regards ...

, an operation on a differentiable function *

Jet (particle physics) A jet is a narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. Particles carrying a color charge, such as quarks, cannot exist in free form because of quantum ...

, a narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon *

Jet bundle In differential topology, the jet bundle is a certain construction that makes a new smooth fiber bundle out of a given smooth fiber bundle. It makes it possible to write differential equations on sections of a fiber bundle in an invariant form. Je ...

, a fiber bundle of jets in differential topology *

Jet group In mathematics, a jet group is a generalization of the general linear group which applies to Taylor polynomials instead of vectors at a point. A jet group is a group of jets that describes how a Taylor polynomial transforms under changes of coordi ...

, a group of jets in differential topology *

Jet stream Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering thermal wind, air currents in the Atmosphere of Earth, atmospheres of some planets, including Earth. On Earth, the main jet streams are located near the altitude of the tropopause and are west ...

, in meteorology, commonly referred to as "jet" *

Astrophysical jet An astrophysical jet is an astronomical phenomenon where outflows of ionised matter are emitted as an extended beam along the axis of rotation. When this greatly accelerated matter in the beam approaches the speed of light, astrophysical jets bec ...

, in astrophysics, a stream of matter emitted along the axis of a rotating astronomical body *

Joint European Torus The Joint European Torus, or JET, is an operational magnetically confined plasma physics experiment, located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK. Based on a tokamak design, the fusion research facility is a joint European pro ...

, an experimental nuclear fusion machine *

Junctional ectopic tachycardia Junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is a rare syndrome of the heart that manifests in patients recovering from heart surgery. It is characterized by cardiac arrhythmia, or irregular beating of the heart, caused by abnormal conduction from or thr ...

, a rare cardiac arrhythmia that sometimes occurs after surgery in infants

People

Jet (name) Jet is a given name which may be either masculine or feminine. It is relatively common in Dutch-speaking countries, as a nickname for certain feminine given names (for example, Henriette or Mariëtte), and is pronounced in that context. It is rare ...

, given name, generally feminine in Dutch, masculine in English *

Jet Li Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, Chinese martial arts, martial artist, and retired wushu (sport), Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singapo ...

(born 1963), Chinese film actor, producer and martial artist *

Kenny "the Jet" Smith Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), nicknamed "the Jet", is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacrame ...

(born 1965), American basketball commentator and former player *

Benny Urquidez Benny Urquidez (born June 20, 1952) is an American kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Nicknamed "The Jet", Urquidez was a non-contact karate competitor who later pioneered full-contact fighting in the United States. He made the t ...

(born 1952), kickboxer, choreographer and actor known as "The Jet" *

Jason Eugene Terry Jason Eugene Terry (born September 15, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 19 seasons in the NBA as a combo guard and is ...

(born 1977), American basketball player nicknamed "JET" *

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas Jay Aston Emmanuel-Thomas (born 27 December 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Jamshedpur. A product of the Arsenal Academy, he is a versatile forward and can play as a winger or s ...

(born 1990), English association football player nicknamed "JET" * Jet ( Diane Youdale, born 1970), one of the stars of ''Gladiators'' * Jet (Monica Carlson), Women's Champion of the first season of '' American Gladiators''

Fictional characters

Jet (DC Comics) Jet is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. She first appeared in ''Millennium'' #2 (January 1988) and was created by Steve Engelhart and Joe Staton. Fictional character biography The creators of the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians of ...

, a comic book character from ''New Guardians'' * The Jets, a gang in the 1957 Broadway musical ''

West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...

'' * Jet Alone, a character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' anime series * Jet Black, a character from the anime ''Cowboy Bebop'', see

List of Cowboy Bebop characters The following is a list of major and minor characters from the anime series '' Cowboy Bebop'', directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto, its manga series adaptation, written by Kuga Cain and Yutaka Nanten, and its live-act ...

* Jet Fusion, a cartoon character from ''The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' * Jet Jackson, from the 1950s TV show '' Jet Jackson, Flying Commando'' * Jett Jackson, from the 1999–2001 TV show ''

The Famous Jett Jackson ''The Famous Jett Jackson'' is a coming-of-age television series for the Disney Channel. The show is about a boy named Jett Jackson (Lee Thompson Young) who plays a teenage secret agent on a fictional show-within-a-show called ''Silverstone''. P ...

'' *

Jet Jaguar is a 1973 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Jun Fukuda, written by Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Distributed by Toho and produced under their effects subsidiary Toho–E ...

, a character from the 1973 film ''Godzilla vs. Megalon'' * Jet Link (Cyborg 002), a character from ''Cyborg 009'' *

Jet the Hawk The ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game franchise began in 1991 with the game ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' for the Sega Genesis, which pitted a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic against a rotund male human villain named Doctor Eggman (or Doctor ...

, a character in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise video games and comics * Jet Vac, a video game character from the ''Skylanders'' universe; see ''

Skylanders Academy ''Skylanders Academy'' is a computer-animated streaming television series produced by TeamTO and Activision Blizzard Studios based on the ''Skylanders'' series. The first season debuted on Netflix on October 28, 2016. A trailer for the series d ...

'' * Jet, a fictional dog in the Famous Five book

Five on a Secret Trail ''Five on a Secret Trail'' is the fifteenth novel in the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since ...

* Jet, a character from the cartoon ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' * Jett, a playable video game character from ''

Valorant ''Valorant'' is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games, for Windows. Teased under the codename ''Project A'' in October 2019, the game began a closed beta period with limited access on April 7 ...

Arts and entertainment

* ''Jet'', an alternate name for '' Ground Control'', a 1998 American thriller * ''Jet'' (video game), a 1985 fighter-jet simulation game

Music

Albums and songs

* ''The Jets'' (album), an album by Minnesota band The Jets * ''Jet'' (album), a 1997 album by Katell Keineg * "Jet" (song), a 1974 single by Paul McCartney & Wings * "Jet (Jet, My Love)", a song by

Nat King Cole Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's music career began after he dropped out of school at the age of 15, and continued f ...

* "Jet", a song by Basement from ''

Further Sky ''Further Sky'' is an EP by English rock band Basement. The band went on hiatus in July 2012, prior to the release of their second album '' Colourmeinkindness'' in October 2012. They began practicing again around Christmas 2013, composing the so ...

Music groups

Jet (Australian band) Jet was an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 2001. For most of the band's tenure, it consisted of lead guitarist and vocalist Cameron Muncey, bassist Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Chris Cester ...

, an Australian rock band with the Cester brothers *

Jet (UK band) Jet were an English glam rock band from London, England, formed in 1974. They released one album in 1975 before splitting up, with the bulk of the band going on to become the punk/new wave band Radio Stars. History The band formed in 1974 wi ...

, a one-album British glam rock band from London, active 1974–1976, and afterward re-formed as Radio Stars * The Jets, a Trinidadian band with Lynn Taitt * The Jets (Dutch band), a Dutch pop group of the 1960s *

The Jets (Minnesota band) The Jets are a Tongan-American family band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, composed of brothers and sisters LeRoy, Eddie, Eugene, Haini, Rudy, Kathi, Elizabeth, and Moana Wolfgramm, who perform pop, R&B, and dance music. They started performing ...

, an American pop, R&B, dance, and religious-music band *

The Jets (British band) The Jets are a United Kingdom, British rockabilly musical ensemble, band, who had two charting singles in the early 1980s with "Yes Tonight Josephine" and "Love Makes the World Go Round". The songs reached numbers 25 and 21 respectively in the ...

, rockabilly band, who had a hit single in February 1982 with "Love Makes The World Go Round" * The Jets (Illinois band), an American 1970s rock band from Pekin, Illinois * J.E.T., an Italian-progressive-rock band related to

Matia Bazar Matia Bazar () is an Italian pop band formed in Genoa in 1975. The original members of the group were Piero Cassano (keyboards), Aldo Stellita (bass), Carlo Marrale (guitar, vocals), Giancarlo Golzi (drums) and Antonella Ruggiero (vocals). T ...

* JETS, an electronic music duo consisting of

Jimmy Edgar Jimmy Edgar is an American conceptual artist and sound designer from Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by minimalism, Yves Klein and Immaterialism, early in their career Jimmy released two hip-hop glitch albums under the names Michaux and Kristuit ...

and Travis Stewart

Organizations

* JETS, the

Junior Engineering Technical Society Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) was a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting engineering and technology careers to America's young people. JETS engaged students in various engineering education programs that were desi ...

, a national non-profit educational organization to promote engineering and technology careers to youth * JETS, abbreviation for the Jewish Educational Trade School, a technical college and high school for young Jewish men *

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...

Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary (JETS) is a theological seminary in Amman, Jordan. It was founded in 1991 by Imad Shehadeh, who continues to serve as President. It is accredited by the Asia Theological Association, and offers Bachelor of ...

Businesses

Jet (brand) Jet is the European brand of filling stations which is owned by American-based conglomerate Phillips 66. Jet filling stations are located in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom, and formerly in Denmark, Sweden and Ireland. The owner sold, ...

, a filling-station brand name * ''Jet'' (video game), a 1985 fighter-jet simulation game *

Jet Records Jet Records was a British record label started by Don Arden in 1974, featuring musicians such as Lynsey de Paul, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Price, Adrian Gurvitz, Riot and Magnum. History Th ...

, a record label * JET TV, abbreviated name for Japan Entertainment Television *

Jet's Pizza Jet's America, Inc. (doing business as Jet's Pizza) is an American pizza franchise restaurant. It was founded in 1978 in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, and operates primarily in the state of Michigan. History The first Jet's Pizza was op ...

, an American pizza franchise restaurant *

Jet.com Jet.com was an American e-commerce company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company was co-founded in 2014 by Marc Lore (who had previously sold Diapers.com to Amazon.com), along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust. Jet.com raised $820 mi ...

, an e-commerce retail site owned by Walmart *

Java Emitter Templates Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. It is the second-most-popular IDE for Java development, and, un ...

Access Database Engine The Access Database Engine (also Office Access Connectivity Engine or ACE and formerly Microsoft Jet Database Engine, ''Microsoft JET Engine'' or simply ''Jet'') is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. The firs ...

, a Microsoft database engine formerly referred to as Jet Red where JET referred to "Joint Engine Technology"

Magazines

* ''Jet'' (magazine), an African-American-themed magazine * ''JET'', abbreviated title for the ''

Journal of Economic Theory The ''Journal of Economic Theory'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of economic theory. Karl Shell has served as editor-in-chief of the journal since it was established in 1968. Since 2000, he has shared the editor ...

'', an academic journal in the field of economics * ''JETS'', abbreviated title for the ''

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society The ''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' is a Scholarly peer review, refereed List of theological journals, theological journal published by the Evangelical Theological Society. It was first published in 1958 as the ''Bulletin of the ...

'', a refereed theological journal * ''

Journal of Evolution and Technology The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is a technoprogressive think tank that seeks to "promote ideas about how technological progress can increase freedom, happiness, and human flourishing in democratic societies."Joseph R. ...

Sports teams

* Delhi Jets, a cricket team from Indian Cricket League *

Ipswich Jets The Ipswich Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Ipswich, Queensland. Their name comes from nearby RAAF Base Amberley, one of the largest airbases in Australia. The Jets compete in the Queensland Cup competition. Originall ...

, an Australian rugby league team *

New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The J ...

, an American football team * Newcastle United Jets, an Australian association football club *

Newtown Jets The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSW Cup competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season. The Jets' home ground ...

, an Australian rugby league team *

Winnipeg Jets The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The team competes in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference, and is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, pl ...

, a professional ice hockey team *

Winnipeg Jets (1972–96) The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called ...

, a former professional ice hockey team

Other uses

Jet (gemstone) Jet is a type of lignite, the lowest rank of coal, and is a gemstone. Unlike many gemstones, jet is not a mineral, but is rather a mineraloid. It is derived from wood that has changed under extreme pressure. The English noun ''jet'' derives f ...

, a black or brown semi-precious mineraloid *

Jet, Oklahoma Jet is a town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 213 at the 2010 census. History The community of Jet was founded by the Jett brothers, six unmarried brothers named Joseph, Trigg, Newt, Warner, John, and Richard Jet ...

, United States of America * Jet of Iada (1942–1949), Dickin Medal-winning dog *

JET Programme The , or , is a Japanese government initiative that brings college (university) graduates—mostly native speakers of English—to Japan as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) and Sports Education Advisors (SEAs) in Japanese kindergartens, elementa ...

, the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (teaching English) * Jet, type of

nozzle A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (specially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe. A nozzle is often a pipe or tube of varying cross sectional area, a ...

, used on gas cookers and many other applications * Jets, a form of

upper-atmospheric lightning Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and storm clouds. Upper-atmo ...

Matra Djet The Matra Djet is a French sports car that was originally designed and sold by René Bonnet. As the Bonnet Djet it was the world's first rear mid-engined production road car. Different versions of the car were produced from 1962 until 1967 and sol ...

(Matra Sports Jet), a French sports car *

, a Microsoft database engine formerly referred to as Jet Red *

Samsung Jet Samsung Jet (S8000) is a mid-range touchscreen mobile phone released in June 2009 by Samsung Mobile. It is styled just like the Samsung i8000 Omnia II, but is smaller in size and runs a proprietary Samsung interface. Like the Omnia II (announced ...

, a mobile-phone handset