Swift
Swift may refer to:
- Swift (bird), birds in the order Apodiformes
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Arts and entertainment
Music
- Taylor Swift, American country and pop singer-songwriter
- Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12
- The Swift, a Christian band
- Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs
Publications
- Swift, a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
- Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
Organizations
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), data on transactions between banks etc.
- 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
United States
- 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
Elsewhere on Earth
- River Swift, England
Outer space
- Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
- Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos
- 5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid
Science
- Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit
- 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
Computing
- Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component
- Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc.
- Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
- Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X
- SWIFT, a thermofluid software package by AVL
- Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux
Technology
- Structured What If Technique (SWIFT), a risk analysis method
- SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for DAta Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard
Sport
- Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club
- New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team
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 car
- Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US
- Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US
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
People
- Swift (surname)
- Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer
- Morrison I. Swift, American social theorist, organizer and activist.
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., 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, is fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
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 smart card utilising near field communication used on public transport in and around Birmingham, UK
See also
- Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
- Swift fox, a species of North American fox
- Swift Boat (disambiguation)
- 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)
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