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Definition: Swift


(1) A programming language from Apple for creating macOS and iOS applications. Introduced in 2014, Swift supports Apple's traditional language and interfaces for desktop and mobile development (Objective-C, Cocoa and Cocoa Touch). Swift added constructs to make program statements clearer; for example, defining non-changing variables as a "constant" type. "Tuples" enable compound values to be passed to functions, and "optionals" provide a safer way to support variables that are empty. See Objective-C.

(2) (SWIFT, La Hulpe, Belgium) An industry cooperative that provides a standard format for transmitting payments, stock transactions, letters of credit and other financial messages to more than 11,000 institutions around the world. Founded in 1973 as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, millions of transactions worth more than $100 billion dollars are sent each day with an average transit time of 20 seconds. Working like a bank routing number, a SWIFT code is widely used to transfer funds between banks.