Shift

Shift may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Shift (music), a change of level in music
• Shift (Artist), a South African composer of Soul Music , Hip-hop. He is also a performing artist in addition to recording engineering. Real name Buhle-bamazizi Mbuyiswa
• 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 (MSNBC), an online live-streaming video network
• Shift the Ape, a character in The Chronicles of Narnia novel series
• Shift (sculpture), an outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra located in King City, Ontario, Canada
• Shift (album), a 2004 album by a Swedish Grindcore band NasumΩ
• 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
• 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

Mathematics and computing

• Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard or typewriter
• Bit shift, a bit-wise 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 bit-wise 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

Linguistics

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

Other uses

• 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
• Shift (business), an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars
• Making out, known in Hiberno-English 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