Swift

Swifts are birds in the order Apodiformes.

Swift may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12
• The Swift, a Christian band

Publications

• Swift, a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
• Swift (UK comics), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle

Organizations

• Swift & Company, a meat processing company
• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), data on transactions between banks etc.
• Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team

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, a US trucking company

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

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

Technology

• 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 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)

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 (comics), comic-book character from The Authority

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
• Swift Boat (disambiguation)
• Swift water rescue
• Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States