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Shift

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Shift may refer to:

Arts, 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

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
  • 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
  • Shift, in baseball positioning, a strategic alteration in defenders' normal fielding locations

Other uses

  • Shift (business), an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars
  • 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
  • SHIFT, German company producing the Shiftphone

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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