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, jet ...

, 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 clas ...

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

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 (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 pu ...

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 **

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 flu ...

, 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 regard ...

, 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 quant ...

, 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. ...

, 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 co ...

, a group of jets in differential topology *

Jet stream Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth. On Earth, the main jet streams are located near the altitude of the tropopause and are westerly winds (flowing west to east) ...

, 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 beco ...

, 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 Magnetic confinement fusion, magnetically confined Plasma (physics), plasma physics experiment, located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, UK. Based on a tokamak ...

, 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, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen. After three years ...

(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 Sacra ...

(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 tra ...

(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 i ...

(born 1977), American basketball player nicknamed "JET" * Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (born 1990), English association football player nicknamed "JET" * Jet (

Diane Youdale Diane Patricia Youdale (born 13 February 1970) is an English television personality, who is best known for her role as Jet on the television series '' Gladiators.'' Career In 1990, Youdale played the She-Wolf in the Finnegan/Pinchuk Company, ...

, 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 ...

, 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 ...

'' * 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-ac ...

Jet Fusion This is a list of characters in the American film '' Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', the animated television series spin-off'' The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius'' and other media. Main characters Cast table Jimmy Neutron James Isaac ...

, 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, 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'' * Jet, a fictional dog in the Famous Five book Five on a Secret Trail * Jet, a character from the cartoon ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' * Jett, a playable video game character from '' Valorant''

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''

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 Lynn Taitt (22 June 1934 – 20 January 2010) was a guitarist born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, who later moved to Jamaica and became a pioneer of rocksteady music. Biography Born Nerlynn Taitt, in San Fernando, Trinidad, he got his s ...

* 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), rockabilly band, who had a hit single in February 1982 with "Love Makes The World Go Round" *

The Jets (Illinois band) The Jets was a band from Pekin, Illinois, consisting of Mike Isenberg, Graham Walker, Greg Clemons, Greg Wilson, and Randy Kohtz. They were together from 1972 to 1980, and a small amount of their recordings are still available on Twin/Tone Recor ...

, 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). ...

* 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 Travis Stewart, better known as Machinedrum, is an American electronic record producer and performer from North Carolina.Junior Engineering Technical Society, a national non-profit educational organization to promote engineering and technology careers to youth * JETS, abbreviation for the

Jewish Educational Trade School The Jewish Educational Trade School (JETS) is a technical college and high school for young Jewish men. It is in the San Fernando Valley region of Greater Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the Unit ...

, 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 centers, federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, La Cañada Flintridge, California ...

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), 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 ...

, a record label * JET TV, abbreviated name for

Japan Entertainment Television Japan Entertainment Television, or JET TV, is a television station in Taiwan that broadcasts programs relating to aspects of Japanese culture. JET TV was founded in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sover ...

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 o ...

, 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 *

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 edi ...

'', 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 refereed theological journal published by the Evangelical Theological Society. It was first published in 1958 as the ''Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society'', and was given i ...

'', a refereed theological journal * '' Journal of Evolution and Technology''

Sports teams

Delhi Jets Delhi Giants (''formerly'' Delhi Jets until the 2008 Edelweiss 20's Challenge) was one of the nine teams played in the now-defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL). This team represented the Indian capital city, New Delhi, and its captain was Marvan ...

, 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. Original ...

, 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 ...

, an American football team *

Newcastle United Jets Newcastle United Jets Football Club, commonly known as Newcastle Jets, is an Australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from The Australia ...

, 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, p ...

, a professional ice hockey team *

Winnipeg Jets (1972–96) 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 ...

, 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 ...

, a black or brown semi-precious mineraloid * Jet, Oklahoma, United States of America *

Jet of Iada Jet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Service ...

(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, element ...

, 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, ...

, 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 (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