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Swift heavy ion
A swift heavy ion is a heavy ion accelerated to about 1 MeV per atomic mass unit or more, used to create nanoscale tracks and test radiation hardness.
Swift J1644+57
Swift J1644+57 is a jetted tidal disruption event detected in 2011, when a supermassive black hole tore apart a star and launched a jet toward Earth.
Swift J1753.5-0127
Swift J1753.5-0127 is a black hole candidate low-mass X-ray binary discovered by NASA's Swift satellite in outburst in July 2005, remaining bright in the low/hard X-ray state for years.
SWIFT message types
SWIFT message types are numbered formats such as MT 103 and MT 202, defined by Swift for exchanging structured financial messages, chiefly payments, between banks over its FIN network.
Swift Solar
Swift Solar is an American solar technology company founded in November 2017 in San Carlos, California, by six academic researchers, developing perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells and modules.
SWIFT study
SWIFT (Study of Women, Infant Feeding and Type 2 Diabetes After GDM Pregnancy) is a Kaiser Permanente Northern California prospective cohort of 1,035 women with gestational diabetes, 2008–2011, showing graded 34–57% lower 2-year diabetes risk with more intense, longer breastfeeding.
Swift Transportation
Swift Transportation is an American full truckload motor carrier headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded by Jerry Moyes in 1966, it merged with Knight Transportation in 2017.
Swift Vets and POWs for Truth
Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, originally Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, was a political group formed in 2004 to challenge John Kerry's Vietnam War record.
Swiftair Flight 5960
Swiftair Flight 5960 (QY5960), a DHL Boeing 737-400SF cargo flight EC-MFE, crashed on approach to Vilnius 25 November 2024; captain killed, flaps never extended after hydraulic system B was switched off; cause still undetermined.
Swiggy
Swiggy, legally Swiggy Limited and formerly Bundl Technologies, is an Indian food delivery and quick-commerce company in Bengaluru, founded by Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy.
SwiGLU
SwiGLU (Swish-Gated Linear Unit) is a gated activation function for Transformer feed-forward layers, introduced by Noam Shazeer in 2020 and used in LLaMA, PaLM, and Mistral.
Swile
Swile is a French fintech company, founded by Loïc Soubeyrand and headquartered in Montpellier, providing a smart card and app for employee benefits like meal vouchers.
Swim (BTS song)
SWIM (스윔) is a 2026 all-English single by BTS, lead track of fifth album ARIRANG, released March 20, 2026. Produced by Tyler Spry and Leclair with lyrics mainly by RM, it uses ocean imagery about persisting and topped UK sales charts and Spotify's global daily chart.
Swim bladder
The swim bladder, also called the gas bladder or air bladder, is a gas-filled organ fish use to control buoyancy and, in some species, hearing and sound production.
Swim bladder disease
Swim bladder disease, also called swim bladder disorder or flipover, is a fish condition impairing buoyancy control, often caused by poor water quality, infection, or diet.
Swimfan
Swimfan (2002) is an American teen psychological thriller directed by John Polson, starring Jesse Bradford and Erika Christensen, about an obsessive new student stalking a champion high school swimmer; it opened #1, grossed $34.4 million on a $10 million budget, but scored 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
SWIMFRAIL trial
SWIMFRAIL (NCT03955302) is a University of Valencia controlled trial of 12-week physiotherapist-led water exercise, 3 sessions weekly, in frail adults aged 65-95, measuring muscle architecture by ultrasound; completed December 2019 with reported echo-intensity and muscle-thickness improvements.
Swimmer's itch
Swimmer's itch, or cercarial dermatitis, is an itchy allergic rash from bird and mammal schistosome cercariae penetrating swimmer's skin in fresh or salt water; larvae die in humans, rash resolves in 1–2 weeks, worldwide in summer.
Swimming
Swimming: competitive racing in pools (50-1500 m, four strokes, medley, relays) and open water (10 km Olympic since Beijing 2008), governed by World Aquatics, formerly FINA.
Swimming (Mac Miller album)
Swimming (2018) is Mac Miller's fifth studio album, released August 3, 2018 on Warner Bros. Records; 13 tracks produced largely with Jon Brion, featuring Thundercat, Dev Hynes, J. Cole and Snoop Dogg, nominated for the 2019 Grammy for Best Rap Album.
Swimming and diving at the Summer Universiade
Swimming and diving are the aquatic sports on the Summer Universiade program, held at nearly every edition since Turin 1959, with diving added by 1961.
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics comprised 32 pool events in Athens, where Michael Phelps won 6 golds and the United States led with 12.
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle
Men's 200 m freestyle, Athens 2004 Olympics, the "Race of the Century": Ian Thorpe won gold in 1:44.71 (Olympic record), beating defending champion Pieter van den Hoogenband (1:45.23) and Michael Phelps (1:45.32) on 16 August 2004.
Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio de Janeiro, 6–13 August 2016): 32 pool and open-water events at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium and Fort Copacabana; USA won 16 golds, Phelps and Ledecky starred, eight world records, Russian doping controversy.
Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 35 pool events at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, first mixed 4x100m medley relay, two world records, and a US-leading 30 medals.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics: pool swimming at Paris La Défense Arena, 27 July–4 August 2024, 35 events, 854 swimmers from 187 nations; USA led with 28 medals, Marchand won four golds, four world records set.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100-metre freestyle
Men's 100m freestyle, Paris 2024 Olympics, 30-31 July at Paris La Défense Arena. Pan Zhanle (China) won gold in a world record 46.40, beating Kyle Chalmers (47.48) and David Popovici (47.49) by over a second.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100-metre medley relay
The men's 4 × 100-meter medley relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics was won by China in 3:27.46, ending the United States' 64-year Olympic hold on the event.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50-metre freestyle
Men's 50m freestyle at Paris 2024: one-lap sprint held 1–2 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. Cameron McEvoy (AUS) won gold in 21.25, ahead of Benjamin Proud (21.30) and Florent Manaudou (21.56).
Swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships
Swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships: 42 pool medal events, 27 July–3 August 2025, World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore Sports Hub. Qin Haiyang, Summer McIntosh, Léon Marchand, and Gretchen Walsh starred; US women set a 3:49.34 medley relay championship record.