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Sweetness and Lightning (甘々と稲妻)
Sweetness and Lightning (甘々と稲妻, Amaama to Inazuma) is Gido Amagakure's cooking-family manga serialized in good! Afternoon 2013–2018, 12 volumes, 2.9 million copies, adapted into a 12-episode 2016 TMS anime.
Sweetness of wine
Sweetness of wine: residual sugar (glucose plus fructose) left after fermentation, with OIV labelling thresholds from dry (4 g/l) to sweet (45 g/l) and how acidity, tannin and alcohol alter perceived sweetness.
Sweetpea (TV series)
Sweetpea is a British dark comedy thriller TV series adapted from C.J. Skuse's 2017 novel, created by Kirstie Swain, starring Ella Purnell as killer receptionist Rhiannon Lewis; premiered October 10, 2024 on Sky Atlantic and Starz, renewed for a second season due November 2026.
Sweetsick
Sweetsick is an upcoming fantasy drama film written and directed by Alice Birch in her directorial debut, starring Cate Blanchett and Spike Fearn, produced by House Productions and Dirty Films with Film4 and Searchlight Pictures.
Sweetspot Ecole de Surf
Sweetspot Ecole de Surf (École de Surf Sweet Spot) is a FFS-labeled surf school founded in 2006 by Greg Closier at Penfoul beach, Landunvez, Finistère, Brittany, teaching surf, SUP, and foil from age 5.
Sweetwater Secondaries
Sweetwater Secondaries is the series of secondaries funds of Sweetwater Private Equity, an Encinitas, California buyer-led secondaries manager founded by James Gamett, a former StepStone Group partner, in 2016.
Sweety Naughty Crazy
Sweety Naughty Crazy (ஸ்வீட்டி நாட்டி கிரேஸி) is a 2026 Tamil–Telugu adult romantic comedy, Rajasekar G's directorial debut, starring Thrigun, Srijita Ghosh, Iniya, and Radha; released 13 February 2026 with an A certificate.
SWEFOT trial
SWEFOT (SWEdish FarmacOTherapy) trial, a Swedish randomized open-label trial (NCT00764725) in early rheumatoid arthritis comparing infliximab versus sulfasalazine plus hydroxychloroquine added to methotrexate after methotrexate failure; infliximab better at 1 year, not cost-effective over 21 months.
SWEIG007
SWEIG007 (Swei, CVCL_E838) is an EBV-transformed human B-lymphoblastoid cell line from a male donor, a homozygous HLA reference line of the 10th International Histocompatibility Workshop (IHW 9037) typed DRB1*11:01, distributed by ECACC as 88052037.
Swein Forkbeard
Swein Forkbeard (Sveinn Haraldsson, d. 1014) was king of Denmark from 986/987 and briefly king of England, conquering it in 1013 before dying in 1014; his son Cnut completed the Danish conquest in 1016.
Swell (ocean)
Swell, also called ocean swell, is a set of wind-generated ocean waves that have traveled out of their generating area, showing smoother, longer-period crests than wind waves.
Swen Temmel
Swen Temmel (born 1991, Graz, Austria) is an Austrian-American actor and producer in Los Angeles, known for Bandit, The Covenant, and Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, and for executive-producing films he appears in.
SWEN trial
SWEN (Six Week Extended-dose Nevirapine) trial: NIH-funded phase III randomized trial in Ethiopia, India, and Uganda (2001–2007) comparing single-dose versus six weeks of daily infant nevirapine to prevent HIV transmission through breastfeeding; extended dosing cut transmission but caused high nevirapine resistance in infected infants.
Swen Vincke
Swen Vincke, born 1972 in Brugge, Belgium, is a Belgian video game designer who founded Larian Studios in 1996 and is its CEO and creative director.
Swept Away (2002 film)
Swept Away (2002), also released internationally as Love, Sex, Drugs and Money, is Guy Ritchie's remake of Lina Wertmüller's 1974 Italian classic, starring Madonna and Adriano Giannini as castaways; it grossed under $600,000 domestically and won five Razzies including Worst Picture.
Swept Away (musical)
Swept Away is a jukebox musical with music and lyrics by the Avett Brothers and book by John Logan, based on their 2004 album Mignonette and an 1884 shipwreck; it premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2022, played Arena Stage 2023, and ran on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre in 2024.
Swept wing
A swept wing is an aircraft wing angled backward from the fuselage, delaying shock formation and drag so jet airliners can fly near the speed of sound.
Swern oxidation
The Swern oxidation is a mild chemical reaction oxidizing primary alcohols to aldehydes and secondary alcohols to ketones, using DMSO activated by oxalyl chloride, then triethylamine.
Swertia
Swertia L. is a genus of about 170 gentian-family herbs native from subarctic Northern Hemisphere to Old World tropical mountains, with xanthone- and iridoid-rich species such as S. chirayita used in Asian traditional medicine.
Swerve Strickland
Swerve Strickland (Shane Strickland), Tacoma-born AEW wrestler, first African-American AEW World Champion, ex-Killshot (Lucha Underground) and Isaiah "Swerve" Scott (NXT Hit Row), also rapper Swerve the Realest.
Sweyn III of Denmark
Sweyn III of Denmark (Svend 3. Grathe, 1125-1157) was king 1146-1157, rival of Canute V and Valdemar I in the Danish civil war; he won Merseburg recognition in 1152, killed Canute at the Roskilde blood feast, and died at Grathe Heath in 1157.
SWF
SWF, also known as Small Web Format, is a binary file format that delivers vector graphics, text, video, and sound over the Internet for Adobe Flash Player.
SWI/SNF
SWI/SNF (BAF) complexes are ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers, conserved from yeast to humans, with cBAF, PBAF, and ncBAF subfamilies; subunit genes are mutated in over 20% of human cancers.
SWI5-dependent HO expression protein 3
She3p (SWI5-dependent HO expression protein 3) is a cytoplasmic adaptor protein in budding yeast. It forms a transport complex to carry transcripts into the growing bud.
Swietenia
Swietenia (mahogany genus, Meliaceae) is a New World genus of three species, S. mahagoni, S. macrophylla, and S. humilis, plus hybrid S. x aubrevilleana, native from Mexico to Bolivia and Florida to the Caribbean, source of true mahogany timber, CITES-listed.
Swietenia macrophylla
Swietenia macrophylla, known as big-leaf or Honduran mahogany (caoba), is a large tropical tree of the mahogany family native from Mexico to Bolivia, prized for its valuable timber.
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (województwo świętokrzyskie) is one of the 16 provinces of Poland, located in the south-central part of the country with its capital at Kielce.
SWIFT
SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is a Belgian cooperative founded in 1973 that carries payment and securities messages between more than 11,000 banks in over 200 countries.
Swift (programming language)
Swift is a compiled, general-purpose programming language developed by Apple, announced in 2014 and released as open source in 2015, and now the primary language for developing applications on Apple platforms.
Swift boost mission
The Swift boost mission was a 2025–2026 NASA effort to raise the decaying orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which ended when the servicing spacecraft LINK failed.