Other Meanings
- Clean sweep (naval), referring to a completely successful mission carried out by a warship.
- Sweep (horse), a champion thoroughbred race horse
- Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
- Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
- Sweep (fish) a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
- Sweep account, a kind of bank account
- Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
- Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
- Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
- Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
- Sweep (puppet), a character on the Sooty television show
- SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
- Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery
- Sweeps - a term for the sails of a windmill. Usage confined to Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
- Sweep (Transformers), a character from Transformers franchise
- Sweep - a gradual bend or elbow in conduit, piping, or ductwork
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