What is "swarm"

Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swarmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming.]

1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
   --Chaucer.

3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

   Every place swarms with soldiers.
   --Spenser.

4. To abound; to be filled (with).
   --Atterbury.

5. To breed multitudes.

   Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
   --Milton.

Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [Cf. Swerve.] To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.]

At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
--W. Coxe.

Swarm \Swarm\, v. t. To crowd or throng.
--Fanshawe.

Swarm \Swarm\, n. [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv["a]rm a swarm, Dan. sv[ae]rm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. [root]177. Cf. Swerve, Swirl.]

1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. ``A deadly swarm of hornets.''
   --Milton.

2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. ``A swarm of bees.''
   --Chaucer.

3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.

   Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy].
   --Addison.

   Syn: Multitude; crowd; throng.

"cloud of bees or other insects," Old English swearm "swarm, multitude," from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Middle Low German swarm, Danish sværm "a swarm," Swedish svärm, Middle Dutch swerm, Old High German swaram, German Schwarm "swarm;" Old Norse svarmr "tumult"), by Watkins, etc., derived from PIE imitative root *swer- (2) "to buzz, whisper" (see susurration) on notion of humming sound, and thus probably originally of bees. But OED suggests possible connection with base of swerve and ground sense of "agitated, confused, or deflected motion." General sense "large, dense throng" is from early 15c.

"to climb (a tree, pole, etc.) by clasping with the arms and legs alternately, to shin," 1540s, of uncertain origin. "Perh. orig. a sailor's word borrowed from the Continent, but no trace of the meaning has been discovered for phonetically corresponding words" [OED]. perhaps originally a sailors' word, of uncertain origin. Also recorded as swarve (16c.) and in Northern dialects swarble, swarmle. Related: Swarmed; swarming.

"to leave a hive to start another," also "to gather in a swarm, crowd, or throng," late 14c., from swarm (n.). Compare Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme. Related: Swarmed; swarming.

n. 1 A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. 2 A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. 3 (label en computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. vb. 1 (lb en intransitive) To move as a '''swarm'''. 2 (lb en intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. 3 (lb en transitive) To fill a place as a '''swarm'''. 4 (lb en transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army. 5 To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately. 6 To breed multitudes.

1. n. a moving crowd [syn: drove, horde]

2. a group of many insects; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "a cloud of butterflies" [syn: cloud]

3. v. be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: teem, pullulate]

4. move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, stream, teem, pullulate]

A swarm is a group of animals that aggregate and travel in the same direction.

Swarm or swarming may also refer to:

Swarm is the name of an open-source agent-based modeling simulation package, useful for simulating the interaction of agents (social or biological) and their emergent collective behaviour. Swarm was initially developed at the Santa Fe Institute in the mid-1990s, and since 1999 has been maintained by the non-profit Swarm Development Group. Also known as the Swarm Simulation System, it is available for free and use, covered by the GNU General Public License.

Early development work on Swarm was completed by Chris Langton (SFI), Roger Burkhart (John Deere), Nelson Minar (SFI), Manor Askenazi (SFI), Glen Ropella (SFI), Marcus Daniels (SFI), and Alex Lancaster (SFI). Since that time, many hundreds of people around the world have contributed to the continued open source development of the suite of Swarm ABM tools.

Swarm (Fritz von Meyer) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a former Nazi sympathizer and has been mainly featured as an enemy of Spider-Man. His entire body is composed of bees surrounding his skeleton.

Swarm was first released in 1998 by Reflexive Entertainment, in its early days as a video games developer. It is a top-down space shooter with pre-rendered 3d art. In the game, the player controls an assault craft, battling against alien creatures in order to obtain special minerals. In 2008, Reflexive released a slightly updated version of the game entitled Swarm Gold. The updated version was by no means a sequel, but was simply an improved version of the old classic.

The SWARM Remote Weapon System (Stabilised Weapon And Reconnaissance Mount) is a fully armored remote weapon system designed and built by the Thales Group in Glasgow, Scotland. The SWARM system consists of two main assemblies: the Gun Processing and Interface Unit (GPIU), which is operated inside the vehicle, and the external Weapon and Sensor Platform (WASP). It can fire a variety of weapons, and utilize multiple sensors. On the US Marine Corps' Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle (TUGV), it is equipped with a 7.62 mm M240 and day/night sensors.

Currently used in conjunction with:

• US Marine Corps Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle (TUGV)
• British Army Trojan Engineering Tank
• Royal Netherlands Army Bushmaster IMV
• FNSS Pars Armored Vehicle

Swarm is an European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth's magnetic field. High-precision and high-resolution measurements of the strength, direction and variations of the Earth's magnetic field, complemented by precise navigation, accelerometer and electric field measurements, will provide data essential for modelling the geomagnetic field and its interaction with other physical aspects of the Earth system. The results will offer a unique view of the inside of the Earth from space, enabling the composition and processes of the interior to be studied in detail and increase our knowledge of atmospheric processes and ocean circulation patterns that affect climate and weather.

"Swarm" is a science fiction novelette by Bruce Sterling, and his first magazine sale, (his previous publications were either novels or anthology contributions) nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus Awards. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1982, and later republished in the 1989 collection Crystal Express.

Swarm is an action- platform video game developed by Hothead Games and published by Ignition Entertainment. It was released March 22, 2011 for the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network and March 23, 2011 for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. The setting revolves around a flock of 50 blue bipedal creatures, dubbed swarmites, and their quest to collect DNA in order to save their race. The player controls the swarmites as a collective, but each swarmite has individual intelligence meaning interaction between the player and the swarm is always dynamic.

The game was received moderately well by critics with aggregate scores in the 70% range for both platforms at GameRankings, a video game aggregate website. Critics generally felt the game was unique and that it featured impressive artificial intelligence. They also praised the game's dark humor, most notably for the different ways the swarmites can die. Some critics expressed frustration at the game's difficulty level. As of June 2011 the Xbox 360 version had reached 13,000 in sales, while the PlayStation 3 version showed numbers nearing 2,000 during the game's first month.

Swarm is a mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.1 that allows users to share their locations within their social network. A spin-off from and companion app to the older Foursquare, Swarm allows users to check-in to a given location, as well as make future plans with friends and see who is nearby.

Location and check-in data collected in Swarm are used to improve a user's recommendations in Foursquare. Splitting check-ins and general location sharing in to the separate Swarm app was designed to let the main Foursquare app focus on exploring and discovering information on locations, in a Yelp-like fashion. Swarm supports checking in with photos or stickers attached to it, and allows broadcasting of check-ins to other networks including Facebook and Twitter.