Shift

Shift generally means to change (position).

Shift may refer to:

• Gear shift, to change gears in a car
• Shift work, an employment practice
• 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

Arts and entertainment

• 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 (magazine), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine
• Shift the Ape, a character in The Chronicles of Narnia novel series
• The Shift (song), a 'Beach Boys' song off their 1962 "Surfin' Safari" album
• Shift (sculpture), an outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra created in 1970-72 and located in King City, Ontario, Canada
• Shift (album), a 2004 album by a Swedish Grindcore band Nasum
• Shift (game), a 2008 online video game series developed and presented by Armor Games
• Need for Speed: Shift, a 2009 racing video game
• The Shift (film), a 2010 short film from London, England
• Shift 2: Unleashed, the 2011 sequel to the aforementioned video game

Mathematics and computing

• Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard
• Bit shift, a bitwise operator in computing
  • Barrel shifter, a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits
  • Arithmetic shift in telecommunication
  • Logical shift, a bitwise operation that shifts all the bits of its operand
  • Circular shift or bit rotation, often used in cryptography
• Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics

See also

• All pages beginning with "Shift"
• Redshift (disambiguation), 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
• Vowel shift, a change in the pronunciation of vowel sounds
• 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
• SHiFT Conference, a european event around four areas: Social and Human Ideas for Technology