Swift

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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 (bird)]], a family of birds

It may also refer to:
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==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==
* [[Swift (lunar crater)]], 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 Inc.|Acer]]
* [[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, an [[XMPP]] 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|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|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]], Anglo-Irish writer
**[[Taylor Swift]], 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]]

==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)|''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)]]

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