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Swiss people
Swiss people are the citizens of Switzerland, a multilingual federal republic of 26 cantons whose identity rests on shared institutions rather than a common ethnicity or language.
Swiss People's Party
Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC, Schweizerische Volkspartei), Switzerland's largest right-wing populist, national-conservative party; formed 1971 from the agrarian BGB, transformed into the radical right from 1992 under Christoph Blocher; won 28.9% in 2023.
Swiss Re
Swiss Re, also known as Swiss Reinsurance, is a Zurich-headquartered reinsurance company founded in 1863 that insures other insurers and ranks among the world's largest reinsurers.
Swiss roll
Swiss roll (jelly roll, roll cake, roulade): a thin whisked sponge baked flat, filled with jam or cream, and rolled into a cylinder; Central European origin, named in Britain, cracked sponges traced to overbaking, cooling flat, or thickness.
Swiss Super League
Swiss Super League: Switzerland's top football division, run by the Swiss Football League; 12 clubs since 2023/24, 38 rounds, Scottish-style split format; record champions Grasshopper Club Zürich with 27 titles.
Swiss watchmaking industry
The Swiss watchmaking industry is the Swiss watch manufacturing sector, worth over CHF 24 billion in 2022 and holding about 96% of the global luxury watch market.
SWISS-AF study
SWISS-AF (Swiss Atrial Fibrillation Cohort Study, NCT02105844) is a prospective multicenter Swiss cohort of 2,415 AF patients enrolled 2014-2017, studying brain lesions, cognition, and cardiovascular outcomes.
SWISS-PROT
SWISS-PROT is a manually curated protein sequence database created in 1986 by Amos Bairoch at the University of Geneva, and since 2002 it has served as the reviewed, expert-annotated section of UniProtKB.
Swiss-system tournament
Swiss-system tournament: non-eliminating pairing format invented by Julius Müller in 1895 in Zurich for chess; players with equal scores meet, no rematches, FIDE Dutch, Dubov, Burstein, and Lim systems govern pairings.
Swiss-type lathe
A Swiss-type lathe, also called a sliding-headstock lathe, is a precision turning machine whose sliding headstock feeds bar through a guide bushing supporting the cut point.
Swissair
Swissair (Schweizerische Luftverkehr-AG) was the national airline of Switzerland from 1931 to 2002. Known as "the Flying Bank", it collapsed in 2001 after its expansionist Hunter Strategy, ceasing flights on 31 March 2002.
Swissair Flight 111
Swissair Flight 111 was a scheduled New York to Geneva flight that crashed into the Atlantic near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, on 2 September 1998, killing all 229 aboard.
Swisscom
Swisscom is a Swiss telecommunications and IT services company, majority-owned by the Swiss Confederation, operating in Switzerland and, through Fastweb and Vodafone Italia, in Italy.
Swisse
Swisse is an Australian vitamin and supplement brand founded in Melbourne in 1969 by Kevin Ring, owned since 2015 by H&H Group; it reached USD$1 billion revenue in 2025 and leads the VHMS market in mainland China and Australia.
Swisslog
Swisslog is a Swiss warehouse automation and intralogistics company headquartered in Buchs/Aarau, Switzerland, owned by KUKA since 2014 and known for its SynQ software and AutoStore integration.
Swissquote
Swissquote Group Holding Ltd is a Swiss online bank and broker headquartered in Gland, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, offering trading, forex, crypto, and everyday banking.
SWISSto12
SWISSto12 SA is a Swiss aerospace manufacturer in Renens near Lausanne, founded in 2011 by Emile de Rijk, known for 3D-printed RF payloads and small HummingSat geostationary satellites.
Switch
A switch, also called an on-off switch, is a device that interrupts or diverts the flow of electrons in a circuit, and is either fully on or off.
Switch (band)
Switch (band): American soul-funk band formed in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1976 by Gregory Williams; Gordy/Motown act whose hits "There'll Never Be," "I Call Your Name," and "Love Over and Over Again" featured Bobby DeBarge's falsetto; distinct from the Life.Church worship band and the electronic producer Switch.
Switch (Better Call Saul)
"Switch" is the season two premiere of the American drama Better Call Saul, a prequel to Breaking Bad, first airing on AMC on February 15, 2016.
Switch (card game)
Switch (card game), also called Black Jack or Two Four Jacks, is the British shedding card game of the Crazy Eights family: match suit or rank, with 2s drawing 2, 8s skipping, Black Jacks drawing 7, Aces reversing, and a required last-card call.
Switch (corporal punishment)
A switch is a thin flexible tree branch used as a corporal punishment implement, distinct from the birch and cane; historically common in American homes and schools, still legally referenced in states such as Oklahoma.
Switch statement
The switch statement, also known as a case statement, is a programming construct that selects among several labeled alternatives by value, replacing chains of equality tests.
Switch Transformer
The Switch Transformer is a sparse mixture-of-experts language model released by Google Brain in 2021, routing each token to one expert to reach 1.57 trillion parameters.
Switchable catalysis
Switchable catalysis is the control of a catalyst's activity or selectivity by an external stimulus like light, pH, or redox agents, often using rotaxane catalysts.
Switchable polarity solvents
Switchable polarity solvents (SPS) are solvents that switch between low and high polarity when carbon dioxide is added or removed, enabling product recovery by phase separation instead of distillation.
Switchable solvents
Switchable solvents are liquids that reversibly switch between two very different states, usually by adding or removing carbon dioxide, eliminating distillation in separations, recycling, and CO2 capture.
Switchable-hydrophilicity solvents
Switchable-hydrophilicity solvents (SHS) are solvents that switch between hydrophobic and water-miscible forms under carbon dioxide, first devised by Philip Jessop in 2005 and used to avoid distillation in solvent recycling.
Switchblade
A switchblade, also known as a flick knife or automatic knife, is a knife whose blade opens automatically by button, spring, gravity, or inertia, defined in US federal law since 1958.
Switchboard (electrical)
An electrical switchboard is a freestanding assembly of switches, circuit breakers, and busbars that divides incoming power into separate circuits, rated up to 600 V.