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Shift may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Gaming
- Shift (company), a Japanese PlayStation developer
- Shift (game), a 2008 online video game series developed and presented by Armor Games
- Need for Speed: Shift, a 2009 racing video game
- Shift 2: Unleashed, the 2011 sequel to the aforementioned video game
Music
- Shift (music), a change of level in music
- Shift (string technique), a movement of the fingers of the left hand from one position to another on the same string
- Shift (album), a 2004 album by a Swedish Grindcore band NasumΩ
Writing
- Shift (magazine), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine
- 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
Other media
- Shift (MSNBC), an online live-streaming video network
- Shift (sculpture), an outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra located in King City, Ontario, Canada
Linguistics
- Language shift, the process in which a community of speakers shift to speaking a different language
- Sound change, also known as "sound shift"
- Shifting (syntax), a syntactic process
Mathematics and computing
- Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard or typewriter
- Bit shift, an operation treating a value as a sequence of binary digits
- Arithmetic shift
- Logical shift
- Circular shift, often used in cryptography
- Barrel shifter, a digital circuit implementing bit shifts
- Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics
Other uses
- Gear shift, to change gears in a car
- Shift work, an employment practice
- Shift (software), a desktop application for email and apps management
- Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon
- Shift (clothing), a simple kind of undergarment
- Shift (ice hockey), a group of players in ice hockey
- Shift (business), an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars
- Making out, known in Hiberno-English slang as "shifting"
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Shift
- All pages with titles beginning with SHIFT
- The Shift (disambiguation)
- Redshift, happens 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
- Paradigm shift, a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science
- Tax shift, a fiscal policy
- Baseball positioning, where "shift" is a strategic alteration in defenders' normal fielding locations
- Shapeshifting, a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales
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