Shift
Art, entertainment, and media
Gaming
- Shift (series), a 2008 online video game series by Armor Games
- Need for Speed: Shift, a 2009 racing video game
- Shift 2: Unleashed, 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
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 (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
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 keyboard or typewriter
- 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
- Shift work, an employment practice
- Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out
- Tax shift, a fiscal policy
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Shift
- All pages with titles beginning with SHIFT
- Shifter (disambiguation)
- The Shift (disambiguation)
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