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SWIFT Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: * SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks ** SWIFT code * Swift (programming language) * Swift (bird), a family of birds It may also refer to: Organizations * SWIFT, ...

, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks ** SWIFT code *

Swift (programming language) Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. and the open-source community. First released in 2014, Swift was developed as a replacement for Apple's earlier programming language Objective- ...

Swift (bird) The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are not closely related to any passerine species. Swifts are placed in the order Apodiformes with hummingbirds. The treeswifts are closel ...

, a family of birds It may also refer to:

Organizations

, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks *

Swift Engineering Swift Engineering Inc. is an American spacecraft engineering firm that builds autonomous systems, helicopters, submarines, spacecraft, ground vehicles, robotics, and composite parts. Swift used to produce racing cars for open-wheel racing series ...

, an American engineering firm *

Swift & Company JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is an American food processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational company JBS S.A. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company. JBS speci ...

, a meat processing company * Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team

Transportation companies

* Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer * Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans * Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England * Swift Transportation, a US trucking company

Places

River Swift The River Swift is a 14-mile (23 km) long tributary of the River Avon that rises in south Leicestershire, and flows through the town of Lutterworth before joining the Avon at its confluence at Rugby in Warwickshire in the English Mi ...

, a river in England * Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois * Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota * Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota * Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri

Astronomy

Swift (lunar crater) Swift is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the northwestern part of the Mare Crisium, in the northeast part of the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System a ...

, a crater on the Moon * Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos *

5035 Swift 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

(1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid * Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit

Biology

, a family of birds * Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe

Gegenini Baorini is a tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies. Genera * '' Baoris'' * '' Borbo'' * '' Brusa'' * '' Caltoris'' * '' Gegenes'' * ''Iton'' * '' Parnara'' * ''Pelopidas Pelopidas (; grc-gre, Πελοπίδας; died 3 ...

* Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus '' Sceloporus'' ** Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus ''

Liolaemus ''Liolaemus'' is a genus of iguanian lizards, containing many species, all of which are endemic to South America. Description Members of the genus ''Liolaemus'' form a dominant part of the lizard fauna of the southern part of the continent of ...

'' * Swift moth, of the family Hepialidae *

Swift fox The swift fox (''Vulpes velox'') is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It also lives in southern M ...

, a species of North American fox

Computing and telecommunication

* Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component *

, a programming language developed by Apple Inc. * Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory * Swift (SoC) platform by

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...

* Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the

Apple A6 The Apple A6 is a 32-bit package on package (PoP) system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. that was introduced on September 12, 2012 at the launch of the iPhone 5. Apple states that it is up to twice as fast and has up to twice the graphic ...

and

Apple A6X The Apple A6X is a 32-bit system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., introduced at the launch of the 4th generation iPad on October 23, 2012. It is a high-performance variant of the Apple A6 and the last 32-bit chip Apple used on an iOS de ...

* Swift, an

XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, originally named Jabber) is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. Based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), it ...

client for Windows, Mac and Linux * SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for

DAta Radio Channel Data Radio Channel (DARC) is a high-rate (16 kbit/s) standard for encoding data in a subcarrier over FM radio broadcasts. It uses a frequency of 76kHz, the fourth harmonic of the FM radio pilot tone. DARC was approved as the All-European standard ...

(DARC) subcarrier messaging standard

Transportation

Aircraft

Aériane Swift The Aériane Swift is a lightweight (48 kg) foot-launched tailless sailplane whose rigid wings have a span of 40 feet. The Swift has been succeeded by the "Swift'Lite". Although designed in California, Swift aircraft are now manufactured by ...

, a Belgian sail plane design *

Comper Swift The Comper C.L.A.7 Swift is a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft produced by Comper Aircraft Company Ltd of Hooton Park, Cheshire. Design and development In March 1929 Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Comper left the Royal Air Force and form ...

, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft *

Globe GC-1 Swift The Globe GC-1 Swift, also known as the Globe/Temco Swift, is a light, two-seat sport monoplane from the post-World War II period. Design and development The Swift was designed by R.S. "Pop" Johnson in 1940, despite the fanciful story whic ...

, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951 *

Swift S-1 The Swift S-1 is a single seat aerobatic glider manufactured by Polish company Swift Ltd. Design and development Edward Margański, Jerzy Cisowski and Jerzy Makula developed the Swift at Bielsko-Biała from the SZD-21-2b Kobuz 3. The prototyp ...

, a Polish sailplane * Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II

Land

Leyland Swift The Leyland Swift was a midibus chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1987 and 1990 as a successor to the Leyland Cub. It shared many components with the Roadrunner light truck but with the engine relocated to behind the front axle which was ...

, a British mid-sized bus *

Suzuki Swift The is a supermini car ( B-segment) produced by Suzuki. The vehicle is classified as a B-segment marque in the European single market, a segment referred to as a supermini in the British Isles. Prior to this, the "Swift" nameplate had been a ...

, a car *

Skokie Swift The Yellow Line, alternatively known as the Skokie Swift, is a branch of the Chicago "L" in Chicago, Illinois. The route runs from the Howard Terminal on the north side of Chicago, through the southern part of Evanston and to the Dempster Ter ...

, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US *

Swift Bus Rapid Transit Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: * SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks ** SWIFT code * Swift (programming language) * Swift (bird), a family of birds It may also refer to: Organizations * SWIFT, a ...

, in Snohomish County, Washington, US

Water

Swift Boat (disambiguation) Swift Boat or swift boat may refer to: * Patrol Craft Fast, known as "Swift Boats", boats operated by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War ** Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, former name of the political group Swift Vets and POWs for Truth ...

Military

* HSV-2 ''Swift'', a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy ** Swift Boats, used by the US Navy in the Vietnam War * Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy * HMS ''Swift'', several ships of British Royal Navy *

Operation Swift Operation Swift was a military operation in the Vietnam War, launched by units of the U.S. 1st Marine Division to rescue two Marine companies which had been ambushed by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The operation took place in the Quế ...

, in the Vietnam War

Music

Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans multiple genres, and her vivid songwriting—often inspired by her personal life—has received critical praise and wide media coverage. Bor ...

, American country and pop singer-songwriter * Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12 * Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs

Sport

* Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club *

New South Wales Swifts New South Wales Swifts are an Australian netball team based in Sydney, New South Wales. Since 2017 they have represented Netball New South Wales in Suncorp Super Netball. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship. The team was ...

, an Australian netball team

People

* Swift (surname) **

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish Satire, satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whig (British political party), Whigs, then for the Tories (British political party), Tories), poe ...

, Anglo-Irish writer **

, American singer and songwriter

Fictional characters

Tom Swift Tom Swift is the main character of six series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. First published in 1910, the series totals more than 100 volumes. The character was ...

, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910 * Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954 *

Swift Alternetter '' Cars'' is a media franchise including the 2006 film '' Cars'', the 2011 film ''Cars 2'', the 2017 film '' Cars 3'', the 2013 film ''Planes'' and the 2014 film '' Planes: Fire & Rescue''. Characters in the fictional universe include: Piston ...

, a character in the film ''Cars'' * Swift (character), comic-book character from ''The Authority'' *

Swift Wind This is a list of characters that appear in '' She-Ra: Princess of Power'' and ''She-Ra and the Princesses of Power''. Overview The Rebellion The Great Rebellion is a faction on Etheria that fights the occupation of Etheria by the Horde. While ...

, is fictional character from ''She-Ra: Princess of Power''

Other uses

* Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia * Structured What If Technique, in risk management *

ISO 9362 ISO 9362 is an international standard for Business Identifier Codes (BIC), a unique identifier for business institutions, approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). BIC is also known as SWIFT-BIC, SWIFT ID, or SWIFT code, ...

, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking * Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn *

.220 Swift The .220 Swift (5.56×56mmSR) is a semi-rimmed rifle cartridge developed by Winchester and introduced in 1935 for small game and varmint hunting. It was the first factory-loaded rifle cartridge with a muzzle velocity of over , just under ...

, a rifle cartridge * Swift card, a card on public transport in Birmingham, United Kingdom * ''Swift'', a newsletter of the

James Randi Educational Foundation James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is an American grant-making institution founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi. As a nonprofit organization, the mission of JREF includes educating the public and the media on the dangers of ...

* ''Swift'' (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to ''Eagle''