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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 * SWIF ...

, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks **

SWIFT code 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, ...

Swift (programming language) Swift is a High-level programming language, high-level general-purpose programming language, general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language, multi-paradigm, compiled language, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 ...

Swift (bird) The Apodidae, or swifts, form a family 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 along with hummingbirds. The treeswifts ...

, a family of birds It may also refer to:

Organizations

, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks *

Swift Engineering Swift Engineering is an American engineering firm that builds Autonomous robot, autonomous systems, helicopters, submarines, spacecraft, ground vehicles, robotics, and composite parts. The chairman and CEO is Hiro Matsushita, a former racecar dr ...

, an American engineering firm *

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

, a meat processing company *

Swifts (aerobatic team) The Swifts () is an Aerobatics, aerobatic demonstrator team of the Russian Air Force, formed on 6 May 1991. The team currently performs with 6 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29, MiG-29/29UB aircraft. Team roster The team roster today unchanged since 200 ...

, a Russian aerobatic team

Transportation companies

* Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer * Swift Leisure, 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 an American truckload motor shipping carrier based in Phoenix, Arizona, 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 Transporta ...

, a US trucking company

Places

* River Swift, a river in England * Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois *

Swift County, Minnesota Swift County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 9,838. Its county seat is Benson, Minnesota, Benson. History Swift County is in west central ...

, 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 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 Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, a ...

, a crater on the Moon *

Swift (Deimian crater) Swift is an impact crater on Mars's moon Deimos. It is about in diameter. Swift is named after Jonathan Swift, whose 1726 book ''Gulliver's Travels'' predicted the existence of two moons of Mars. Swift is one of two named features on Deimos, t ...

, 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. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat pri ...

(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

, 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 (; ; died 364 BC) was an important T ...

* 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 The Hepialidae are a Scientific classification, family of insects in the lepidopteran Scientific classification, order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and systematics The Hepialidae constitute ...

, 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

Acer Swift The Swift is a line of laptop computers produced by Acer Inc., Acer. They are designed to be lightweight and thinner than typical laptops. Laptops in the Swift series are the Swift 1, Swift 3, Swift 5 and Swift 7. In an announcement in February ...

, a thin and lightweight line of laptops by Acer *

Swift (distributed storage) OpenStack is a free software, free, open-source software, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as Cloud computing#Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds ...

, OpenStack's distributed storage component *

, 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, 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 (ISAs) for central processing unit, com ...

CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X * Swift, an

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

client for Windows, Mac and Linux * SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for Data Radio Channel (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 . The Swift has been succeeded by the "Swift'Lite". Although designed in California, Swift aircraft are now manufactured by Aéria ...

, a Belgian sail plane design *

Comper Swift The Comper C.L.A.7 Swift is a British single-seat sporting aircraft designed and produced by the Comper Aircraft Company. It was the company’s first aircraft. The Swift was designed shortly after Nicholas Comper’s departure from the Royal A ...

, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft * Globe GC-1 Swift, 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 prototy ...

, 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, 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 applie ...

, a Japanese hatchback *

Skokie Swift The Yellow Line, also known as the Skokie Swift, is a branch of the Chicago "L" train system 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 Dempste ...

, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US * Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US * Swift card, a public transport smartcard-based ticketing scheme operated by

Transport for West Midlands Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services in the West Midlands metropolitan county in England. It is an executive body of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), with bus fran ...

Water

* Swift Boat (disambiguation)

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

Sport

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

New South Wales Swifts New South Wales Swifts are an Australian professional 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. ...

, an Australian netball team

People

* Swift (surname) **

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the Dean (Christianity), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swi ...

, Anglo-Irish writer **

Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, w ...

, American singer and songwriter *

Swift (rapper) D12 (an initialism for the Dirty Dozen) was an American hip hop music, hip hop group from Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1996, the group achieved mainstream success with its lineup of ''de facto'' leader Eminem, Proof (rapper), Proof, Biz ...

(born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12

Fictional characters

* Jack Swift, a character in the 2004 video game ''

Red Dead Revolver ''Red Dead Revolver'' is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. It is the first entry in the ''Red Dead'' series, and was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in May 2004. Set in the 188 ...

'' *

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. Inaugurated in 1910, the sequence of series comprises more than 100 volumes. The fi ...

, 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, 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 (comics), Stormwatch #28 and was created by Jeff Mariotte and Ron Lim. She is currently a member of The Authority (comics), The ...

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

Cardiacs Cardiacs are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Kingston upon Thames by Tim Smith (Cardiacs), Tim Smith (guitar and lead vocals) and his brother Jim Smith (bassist), Jim (bass, backing vocals) in 1977 under the name Cardiac Arrest. One ...

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, 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) A swift is a tool used to hold a hank (textile), 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 ...

, tool used to hold a hank of yarn * .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge * Swift card, a card on public transport in Birmingham, United Kingdom * ''Swift'', a newsletter of the

James Randi Educational Foundation The 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 dange ...

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

Swift Memorial College Swift Memorial College was a private Historically black colleges and universities, historically Black college established by the Presbyterian church that operated from 1883 to 1952, in Rogersville, Tennessee, United States. It was established aft ...

(1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US