Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: * SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks **

SWIFT code 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, ...

* Swift (programming language) * Swift (bird), a family of birds It may also refer to:

Organizations

* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks * Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm * Swift & Company, a meat processing company *

Swifts (aerobatic team) The Swifts (russian: Стрижи, Strizhi}) is an aerobatic demonstrator team of the Russian Air Force, formed on 6 May 1991. The team currently performs with 6 MiG-29/29UB aircraft. Team roster The team roster today unchanged since 2008. A ...

, a Russian aerobatic team

Transportation companies

Swift Cooper {{Use British English, date=November 2017 Swift Cooper is a British race car constructor. The company was formed in 1986, when Frank Bradley bought the rights to the Swift name from Swift Engineering, and set up the company at Snetterton race co ...

, a British racing car manufacturer *

Swift Leisure Swift Leisure are a British manufacturer of leisure vehicles, including caravans and motorhomes. Started in 1964, the company is based in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire. It celebrated its Golden 50th year in 2014, with the launch of SMART ...

, a British manufacturer of caravans *

Swift Motor Company The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. The cars ranged from a single-cylinder ca ...

, of Coventry, England *

Swift Transportation Swift Transportation is a Phoenix, Arizona-based American truckload motor shipping carrier, part of Knight-Swift. With over 23,000 trucks, it is the largest common carrier in the United States. In 2017, Swift merged with Knight 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 Midlan ...

, a river in England *

Swift, Illinois Swift is an unincorporated community in Bloomingdale Township, DuPage County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metro ...

, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois *

Swift County, Minnesota Swift County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,838. Its county seat is Benson. History Swift County is in west central Minnesota and consists of with three tiers of seven townships each. ...

, a county in west-central Minnesota *

Swift, Minnesota Swift is an unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located east-southeast of Warroad on State Highway 11 ( MN 11). Swift is located within Laona Township and Moranville Township. Nearby places in ...

, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota * Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri

Astronomy

Swift (lunar crater) Swift is a small Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located in the northwestern part of the Mare Crisium, in the northeast part of the Moon's near side. Within two crater diameters to the south is the larger crater Peirce (crater), Peirc ...

, a crater on the Moon *

Swift (Deimian crater) Swift crater is a crater on Mars's moon Deimos. It is about in diameter. Swift crater is named after Jonathan Swift, whose 1726 book ''Gulliver's Travels'' predicted the existence of two moons of Mars. Swift crater is one of two named features ...

, 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 Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, previously called the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and monitoring the afterglow in X-ray, and UV/Visible light at the location o ...

, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit

Biology

* Swift (bird), 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'' *

Swift moth The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and systematics The Hepialidae constitute by far the most diverse group of the infraorder Exopo ...

, of the family Hepialidae * Swift fox, a species of North American fox

Computing and telecommunication

Swift (distributed storage) OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software plat ...

, OpenStack's distributed storage component * Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc. *

Swift (parallel scripting language) Swift is an implicitly parallel programming language that allows writing scripts that distribute program execution across distributed computing resources, including clusters, clouds, grids, and supercomputers. Swift implementations are open-s ...

, a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory *

Swift (SoC) 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, ...

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 ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured ...

CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X * 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, a Belgian sail plane design * Comper Swift, 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 The Supermarine Swift is a British single-seat jet fighter aircraft that was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was developed and manufactured by Supermarine during the 1940s and 1950s. The Swift featured many of the new jet age innova ...

, 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, 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, in Snohomish County, Washington, US

Water

* Swift Boat (disambiguation)

Military

* HSV-2 ''Swift'', a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy **

Swift Boats Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), also known as Swift Boats, were all-aluminum, long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the brown-wate ...

, 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 S ...

, 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) D12 (an initialism for The Dirty Dozen) was an American hip hop collective from Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1996, the group achieved mainstream success with its lineup of ''de facto'' leader Eminem, Proof, Bizarre, Mr. Porter, Kuniva and Swi ...

(born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12 * Miss Swift, character in

Cardiacs Cardiacs are an English rock band formed in Kingston upon Thames by Tim Smith (lead guitar and vocals) and his brother Jim (bass, backing vocals) in 1977 under the name Cardiac Arrest. The band's sound fused circus, baroque pop and medieval mu ...

Sport

Swifts F.C. Swifts Football Club were a football team based in Slough, England. History The club was founded in 1869 by Mr W. Mansfield Gardner, Mr R.T. Smith, and Mr F. Mitchell, of Slough, who also formed the Uxbridge club two years later. The club playe ...

, a defunct English football club * New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team

People

Swift (surname) Swift is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adam Swift (born 1961), British political philosopher and sociologist * Allan Swift (1935–2018), American politician *Austin Swift (born 1992), American actor *Ben Swift (bor ...

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, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910 *

Tom Swift Jr. Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ("Senior") novels. The series was titled ''The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures''. Un ...

, 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) Swift (Shen Li-Min) is a superhero in the Wildstorm universe published by DC Comics. Swift first appeared in Stormwatch #28 and was created by Jeff Mariotte and Ron Lim. She is currently a member of The Authority. Fictional character biography ...

, comic-book character from ''The Authority'' * Swift Wind, is fictional character from ''She-Ra: Princess of Power''

Other uses

Swifts, Darling Point ''Swifts'' (also known as ''The Swifts'') is a heritage-listed late-Victorian architecture, Victorian Battlement, castellated Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival mansion located in the suburb of Darling Point, New South Wales, Darling Po ...

, a mansion in Sydney, Australia *

Structured What If Technique Structured What If Technique (SWIFT) is a prospective hazards analysis method that uses structured brainstorming with guide words and prompts to identify risks, with the aim of being quicker than more intensive methods like Failure mode and effect ...

, in risk management * ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking *

Swift (textiles) A swift is a tool used to hold a hank of yarn while it is being wound off (uncoiled from the hank and rewound in a form usable for knitting or crochet)."Swift." ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. 2nd ed. 1989. It has an adjustable diameter so tha ...

, 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 Swift is an electronic ticketing scheme developed by Transport for West Midlands for use on public transport in the West Midlands metropolitan area in England, similar to the Oyster card in Greater London. Rather than being a single card, it i ...

, a card on public transport in Birmingham, United Kingdom * ''Swift'', a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation * ''Swift'' (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to ''Eagle''