swf

(filename extension)/S W F/ The filename extension forAdobe Shockwave Flash animated vector graphics files,common on the World-Wide Web.

A rarely used alternative expansion is "Small Web Format".

SWF

(Small Web Format) The file format for playing Flash animation files (Flash movies). The Flash source file, which holds the timelines and multimedia elements, uses the .FLA (Flash Authoring) extension and is published to an .SWF file for playback by the Flash media player.

Originally, SWF meant "ShockWave Flash," which was confusing because Shockwave is a different authoring package that uses the .DCR extension for playback files (see Shockwave). As a result, SWF was renamed "Small Web Format." Stand-alone Flash video files use the .FLV extension (see Flash video). See Flash and Swiffy.

SWF

See: Sovereign Wealth Fund

Sovereign wealth fund (SWF).

A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a government-owned enterprise that invests a portion of its country's foreign-exchange reserves in global financial markets.

These reserves consist of a balance of payments surplus, also called a current account surplus, that are created because the payments received in overseas currencies for the country's exports, such as natural resources or manufactured goods, exceed what its residents are paying for imports.

Unlike the traditional overseas investments that governments make to ensure liquidity, such as the purchase of US Treasury securities, SWF assets are separate from official reserves and are typically invested in the private sector to produce higher returns.

SWFs are controversial, in part because their investment strategies, portfolio holdings, and returns are generally secret and in part because of the concern that the sponsoring countries could exert substantial economic pressure on the companies and countries where they invest.

SWF

Acronym	Definition
SWF➣Shockwave Flash (Flash animation technology)
SWF➣Sovereign Wealth Fund
SWF➣Southwest Florida (various organizations)
SWF➣Spring Web Flow (software)
SWF➣Sydney Writers' Festival (Australia)
SWF➣Südwestfunk (former Southern German Radio Station; merged with SDR to SWR)
SWF➣Shockwave Flash File
SWF➣System.windows.forms (.NET namespace)
SWF➣Salt Water Flush (alternative medicine)
SWF➣Standard Written Form (languages)
SWF➣Secure World Foundation (space security)
SWF➣Single White Female
SWF➣Storm Water Flow (hydrology)
SWF➣Scientific Workflows (workshop)
SWF➣Shock Wave File
SWF➣Spiny Water Flea (species)
SWF➣Small Web File (Macromedia Flash movie extension)
SWF➣Star Wars Forum (gaming)
SWF➣Shallow Water Flow
SWF➣Short-wave Fade (out)
SWF➣Secret Weapons Facility (Castle Wolfenstien)
SWF➣Newburgh/Poughkeepsie, NY, USA - Stewart (Airport Code)
SWF➣Start Work Finish
SWF➣Swiss Wrestling Federation
SWF➣Strategic Weapons Facility
SWF➣Steelworker Fabricator (US Navy)
SWF➣Slow-Wave Factor
SWF➣Splash Water Falls (amusement park ride)
SWF➣Spotted Weakfish (FAO fish species code)
SWF➣Singapore Weightlifting Federation
SWF➣Salaries, Wages and Fringe
SWF➣Straight White Female
SWF➣Staff Working File
SWF➣Salary with Fringe (government accounting)
SWF➣System Weight Factor (Delphi Criteria under the DESP II Contract vehicle)
SWF➣Surface Wave Field
SWF➣Statistical Waterfilling Algorithm
SWF➣Semantic Weighting Factor (algorithm)