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Swaroop RSJ
Swaroop RSJ is a Telugu film director from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, known for his 2019 detective comedy Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya and the 2022 film Mishan Impossible.
Swaroop Sampat (स्वरूप संपत)
Swaroop Sampat (स्वरूप संपत), Miss India 1979 and wife of Paresh Rawal, is an Indian actress known as Renu in the sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi and an educationist with a University of Worcester PhD in drama-based life-skills teaching.
Swaroopananda Saraswati
Swaroopananda Saraswati (1924–2022) was an Indian Advaita Hindu leader who served as Shankaracharya of Dwarka Sharada Peetham from 1981, also holding the contested Jyotirmath seat from 1973.
Swarovski
Swarovski is an Austrian crystal and jewelry company founded in 1895 by Daniel Swarovski in Wattens, Tyrol, known for precision-cut crystal, finished jewelry, figurines, and laboratory grown diamonds.
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College, a private coeducational liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, founded 1864 by Hicksite Quakers, known for its 1922 Honors Program, engineering program, loan-free full-need aid, and top-five PhD production rate.
Swarthy Hill
Swarthy Hill (Milefortlet 21, Swarthy Hill Roman Mile Fortlet) is a Cumbrian coastal hill at Crosscanonby holding a Hadrianic Roman milefortlet, excavated 1990-91 and reconstructed, plus an Iron Age triple-ditched hillfort, Cumbria's only known coastal example.
Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience is an annual award by the Society for Neuroscience, first given in 2008 to Wilfrid Rall and supported by the Swartz Foundation.
Swash
Swash is the sheet of water that runs up a beach after a wave breaks and flows back down; the strip of beach it moves over is the swash zone.
Swashbuckler
Swashbuckler: from a 1550s English insult for a swaggering swordsman (swash plus buckler) to a genre of sword-fighting adventure fiction, film, and television blending historical fiction, romance, and daring heroics.
Swashbuckler film
Swashbuckler film: costume adventure genre defined by swordplay and a hero fighting for a noble cause, launched by Fairbanks's The Mark of Zorro (1920), peaking with Flynn and Power, later revived by The Duellists and Zorro variations.
Swashplate (mechanism)
A swashplate is a disk mounted at an angle on a rotating shaft to convert between rotary and axial reciprocating motion, most commonly in variable displacement axial piston pumps.
Swasika
Swasika (സ്വാസിക), stage name of Pooja Vijay, is an Indian actress, dancer, and TV presenter in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu cinema; Kerala State Award winner for Vasanthi, known for Chathuram, Lubber Pandhu, and Thammudu.
Swastika (卍)
The swastika (卍), from Sanskrit svastika meaning "good fortune," is a symbol of blessing used for thousands of years in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, later conflated with the Nazi emblem.
Swastika Mukherjee
Swastika Mukherjee (স্বস্তিকা মুখোপাধ্যায়), also Swastika Mukhopadhyay, Indian actress born 1980 in Kolkata, daughter of actor Santu Mukhopadhyay; known for Bengali cinema plus Paatal Lok, Dil Bechara, and Qala.
Swastika, Ontario
Swastika, Ontario: small unincorporated community in Timiskaming within Kirkland Lake, founded 1908 around the Swastika gold mine and railway station; residents refused a WWII renaming to Winston.
SWAT
SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) teams are police tactical units, originating with the LAPD after the 1965 Watts riots, trained in military-style tactics for barricades, hostages, and warrant service; distinct from ordinary patrol units.
SWAT 4
SWAT 4 is a 2005 tactical first-person shooter by Irrational Games, published by Sierra Entertainment, in which players lead a five-officer police SWAT team under strict rules of engagement; its only expansion is The Stetchkov Syndicate (2006).
Swat District
Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (Swat Valley): 5,337 km², 2,687,384 people (2023 census); former princely state merged 1969, bifurcated into Swat and Bar Swat in 2026; tourism, horticulture, emerald mining.
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, also called SWAT Kats, is a 1993-1995 Hanna-Barbera animated series by Christian and Yvon Tremblay about vigilante cats T-Bone and Razor fighting Megakat City villains in the Turbokat jet.
SWAT model
The SWAT model, or Soil and Water Assessment Tool, is a USDA river basin model that predicts how land management affects water, sediment, and chemical yields in watersheds.
Swat Valley (وادی سوات)
Swat Valley (وادی سوات), also Udyana or Suvastu, is a river valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, along the Swat River from Kalam's glaciers; a former Gandharan Buddhist center, now a major tourist destination.
SWAT+
SWAT+ (Soil and Water Assessment Tool Plus) is a public-domain watershed model simulating water quantity and quality from small watersheds to large river basins, developed by USDA-ARS and Texas A&M AgriLife Research.
Swatantra Dev Singh
Swatantra Dev Singh, born in 1964, is an Indian BJP politician who serves as a Uttar Pradesh minister with the Jal Shakti and disaster management portfolios.
Swatantra Party (स्वतंत्र पार्टी)
The Swatantra Party (स्वतंत्र पार्टी) was India's classical-liberal conservative opposition party, founded by C. Rajagopalachari in Bombay on 1 August 1959 against Congress planning; it won 44 Lok Sabha seats in 1967 and merged into the Bharatiya Lok Dal in 1974.
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (film)
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर), 2024 Hindi biographical drama on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, directed by and starring Randeep Hooda; released 22 March 2024, won Best Debut Director National Film Award, criticized as one-sided.
Swatch
Swatch is a Swiss brand of colorful plastic quartz wristwatches launched in Zurich in 1983, whose success sparked the recovery of the Swiss watch industry.
Swatch Internet Time
Swatch Internet Time, also called .beat time, is a decimal time system introduced by Swatch in 1998 that divides the day into 1,000 units called beats, anchored to Biel, Switzerland.
SWATH-MS
SWATH-MS is a data-independent mass spectrometry method, reported in 2012, that fragments all ions in sequential windows to quantify peptides and proteins in complex samples.
Swathi Kiranam (స్వాతి కిరణం)
Swathi Kiranam (స్వాతి కిరణం), also spelled Swati Kiranam, is a 1992 Telugu musical drama by K. Viswanath starring Mammootty as an egotistical Carnatic singer envious of child prodigy Gangadhar (Master Manjunath), with music by K.V. Mahadevan and a National Award for Vani Jayaram.
Swathi Mutthina Male Haniye
Swathi Mutthina Male Haniye (ಸ್ವಾತಿ ಮುತ್ತಿನ ಮಳೆ ಹನಿಯೇ) is a 2023 Kannada romantic drama written and directed by Raj B. Shetty, starring him and Siri Ravikumar as a hospice counsellor and terminally ill patient; produced by Ramya's AppleBox Studios, released 24 November 2023.