Shift Explained

Shift may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Gaming

• Shift (series), a 2008 online video game series by Armor Games
• , a 2009 racing video game
  • , its 2011 sequel

Literature

• Shift (novel), a 2010 alternative history book by Tim Kring and Dale Peck
• Shift (novella), a 2013 science fiction book, part two of the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey
• Shift the Ape, a character in The Chronicles of Narnia novel series
• Shift (DC Comics), a DC Comics character who is a fragment of Metamorpho
• Shift (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character who is a clone of Miles Morales

Music

• Shift (Nasum album), 2004
• Shift (The Living End album)
• Shift (music), a change of level in music
• Shift (string technique), a finger movement from one position to another on the same string

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Shift (magazine), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine
• Shift (MSNBC), an online live-streaming video network
• Shift (sculpture), an outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra located in King City, Ontario, Canada

Business

• Shift work, an employment practice
• Shift (business), an online peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling used cars
• SHIFT (company), a German company producing the Shiftphone
• SHIFT Inc., a Japanese software testing company

Linguistics

• Language shift, the process in which a community of speakers shift to speaking a different language
• Shifting (syntax), a syntactic process
• Sound shift, also known as sound shifting or sound change
  • Vowel shift

Mathematics and computing

• Barrel shifter, a digital circuit implementing bit shifts
• Bit shift, an operation treating a value as a sequence of binary digits
  • Arithmetic shift
  • Circular shift, often used in cryptography
  • Logical shift
• Shift key, a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard
• Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics

Sports

• Shift (ice hockey), a group of players in ice hockey
• Infield shift, a defensive alignment in baseball and softball

Other uses

• Shift (clothing), a simple kind of undergarment or dress
• Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon
• Gear shift, a lever to change gear in a vehicle
• Paradigm shift, a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science
• Blueshift, any decrease in wavelength, with a corresponding increase in frequency, of an electromagnetic wave
• Redshift, a phenomenon that occurs when light seen coming from an object that is moving away is proportionally increased in wavelength, or shifted, to the red end of the spectrum
• Shapeshifting, a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales
• Shift vector, in ADM formalism of General Relativity
• Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out
• Tax shift, a fiscal policy

See also

• • • • • Shifter (disambiguation)
• The Shift (disambiguation)