Swift (disambiguation)
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Swifts are birds in the order Apodiformes.
Swift means quick in English, and may also refer to:
In arts and entertainment
Music
- Swift (band), band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), U.S. rapper in D12
- The Swift, a Christian band
- Taylor Swift, American Country and Pop Singer
In fiction
- 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 (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
- Swift (comics), comic-book character from The Authority
In business
Businesses and organizations
- Swifts F.C., defunct English football club
- Swift & Company, a meat processing company
Other uses in business
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
- Structured What If Technique, in risk management
- ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking
Places
United States
- Swift, California, former town in El Dorado County
- Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota
- Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota
- Swift, Missouri, a ghost town
Elsewhere
- Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
- Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos
House
- Swifts, Darling Point, a late-Victorian castellated Gothic Revival mansion located in the suburb of Darling Point, Sydney
In science
- Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, NASA spacecraft in low-earth orbit, to study γ-ray bursts
- 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 moths, of the family Hepialidae
Computing technology
- AVL SWIFT, a multi-purpose thermofluid software package using 3D Computational fluid dynamics
- Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component
- Swift, the ARMv7 CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X
- 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
In transportation
Aircraft
- Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design
- Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft
- Globe Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951
- S-1 Swift, a Polish sailplane
- Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II
- Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
Land transportation
- 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
- Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, USA
Land transportation companies:
- Swift Engineering, an American race car manufacturer
- Swift Racing Cars, a British racing car manufacturer
- Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans
- Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England
- Swift Transportation, one of the largest US trucking companies, based in Phoenix, Arizona
Watercraft
- HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy
- Swift boat, also known as Fast Patrol Craft, used by the U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War
- Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy
- HMS Swift, various ships of Britain's Royal Navy
Other uses
- Swift (surname)
- Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn
- .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge
- New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team
- Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War, 1967
- Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States
- Swiftwater rescue
- Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team
- Swift, newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
- Swift card, a smart card utilising near field communication used on public transport in and around Birmingham, UK
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