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Swap or SWAP may refer to:


Finance

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Swap (finance) In finance, a swap is an agreement between two counterparty, counterparties to trade, exchange financial instruments, cashflows, or payments for a certain time. The instruments can be almost anything but most swaps involve cash based on a notiona ...
, a derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cash flows against another *
Barter In trade, barter (derived from ''bareter'') is a system of exchange (economics), exchange in which participants in a financial transaction, transaction directly exchange good (economics), goods or service (economics), services for other goods ...


Science and technology

* Swap (computer programming), exchanging two variables in the memory of a computer *
Swap partition In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This also helps avoid the problem of memory fragmentation and requiring compaction to reduce fra ...
, a partition on a computer storage used for paging * Swap file, a file on a computer storage used for paging * SWAP (instrument) (Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing), a space instrument aboard the ''PROBA2'' satellite * SWAP (New Horizons) (Solar Wind At Pluto), a science instrument aboard the uncrewed New Horizons space probe * SWAP protein domain, in molecular biology * Size, weight and power (SWaP), see DO-297


Other

* Swåp, an Anglo-Swedish folk music band * Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp), an approach to international development * Swap (film), a 2015 Philippine crime drama film


See also

* Swaps (horse) (1952–1972), a California-bred American Thoroughbred racehorse * Swapping (disambiguation) * The Swap {{disambiguation