Shift may refer to:
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 Shift (DC Comics), a DC Comics character who is a fragment of Metamorpho Shift (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character who is a clone of Miles Morales
Music Shift (Nasum album), 2004 Shift (The Living End album), 2016 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 work, an employment practice Shift Technologies (online marketplace), a defunct American online marketplace for 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 has sound shifting or sound change Vowel shift
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 or typewriter keyboard 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 Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out Tax shift, a fiscal policy Reality shifting, a cognitive activity in which practitioners fantasize themselves into alternate realities through meditation and focus
See also
Shifter (disambiguation) The Shift (disambiguation)