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

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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), a crater on Deimos * 5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid * Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit


Biology

* Swift (bird), a family of birds * Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini * Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus '' Sceloporus'' ** Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus '' Liolaemus'' * Swift moth, of the family Hepialidae * Swift fox, a species of North American fox


Computing and telecommunication

* Acer Swift, a thin and lightweight line of laptops by Acer * Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component *
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 ...
, 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, a Belgian sail plane design * Comper Swift, 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, a Polish sailplane * Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II


Land

* Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus * Suzuki Swift, a Japanese hatchback * Skokie Swift, 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


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, in the Vietnam War


Sport

* Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club * New South Wales Swifts, 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) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12


Fictional characters

* Jack Swift, a character in the 2004 video game '' Red Dead Revolver'' * Tom Swift, 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), 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, a mansion in Sydney, Australia * Structured What If Technique, in risk management * ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking * Swift (textiles), 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 * ''Swift'' (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to ''Eagle'' * Swift Memorial College (1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US


See also

* Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel * Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions * '' Swift v. Tyson'', an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States * Justice Swift (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation