Swift

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