# Shift

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**Shift** may refer to:

## Art, entertainment, and media

### Gaming

- [*Shift* (series)](/source/Shift_(series)), a 2008 online video game series by Armor Games
- *[Need for Speed: Shift](/source/Need_for_Speed:_Shift)*, a 2009 racing video game - *[Shift 2: Unleashed](/source/Shift_2:_Unleashed)*, its 2011 sequel

### Literature

- [*Shift* (novel)](/source/Shift_(novel)), a 2010 alternative history book by Tim Kring and Dale Peck
- [*Shift* (novella)](/source/Shift_(novella)), a 2013 science fiction book, part two of the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey
- [Shift the Ape](/source/Shift_the_Ape), a character in *The Chronicles of Narnia* novel series
- [Shift (DC Comics)](/source/Shift_(DC_Comics)), a [DC Comics](/source/DC_Comics) character who is a fragment of [Metamorpho](/source/Metamorpho)
- [Shift (Marvel Comics)](/source/Shift_(Marvel_Comics)), a [Marvel Comics](/source/Marvel_Comics) character who is a clone of [Miles Morales](/source/Miles_Morales)

### Music

- [*Shift* (Nasum album)](/source/Shift_(Nasum_album)), 2004
- [Shift (The Living End album)](/source/Shift_(The_Living_End_album))
- [Shift (music)](/source/Shift_(music)), a change of level in music
- [Shift (string technique)](/source/Shift_(string_technique)), a finger movement from one position to another on the same string

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

- [*Shift* (magazine)](/source/Shift_(magazine)), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine
- [Shift (MSNBC)](/source/Shift_(MSNBC)), an online live-streaming video network
- [*Shift* (sculpture)](/source/Shift_(sculpture)), an outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra located in King City, Ontario, Canada

## Business

- [Shift work](/source/Shift_work), an employment practice
- [Shift Technologies (online marketplace)](/source/Shift_Technologies_(online_marketplace)), a defunct American online marketplace for used cars
- [SHIFT (company)](/source/SHIFT_(company)), a German company producing the Shiftphone
- [SHIFT Inc.](/source/SHIFT_Inc.), a Japanese software testing company

## Linguistics

- [Language shift](/source/Language_shift), the process in which a community of speakers shift to speaking a different language
- [Shifting (syntax)](/source/Shifting_(syntax)), a syntactic process
- Sound shift, also known as sound shifting or [sound change](/source/Sound_change) - [Vowel shift](/source/Vowel_shift)

## Mathematics and computing

- [Barrel shifter](/source/Barrel_shifter), a digital circuit implementing bit shifts
- [Bit shift](/source/Bit_shift), an operation treating a value as a sequence of binary digits - [Arithmetic shift](/source/Arithmetic_shift) - [Circular shift](/source/Circular_shift), often used in cryptography - [Logical shift](/source/Logical_shift)
- [Shift key](/source/Shift_key), a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard
- [Shift operator](/source/Shift_operator), a linear operator in mathematics

## Sports

- [Shift (ice hockey)](/source/Shift_(ice_hockey)), a group of players in ice hockey
- [Infield shift](/source/Infield_shift), a defensive alignment in baseball and softball

## Other uses

- [Shift (clothing)](/source/Shift_(clothing)), a simple kind of undergarment or dress
- [Shift (weapon)](/source/Shift_(weapon)), an improvised knife used as a weapon
- [Gear shift](/source/Gear_shift), a lever to change gear in a vehicle
- [Paradigm shift](/source/Paradigm_shift), a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science
- [Blueshift](/source/Blueshift), any decrease in wavelength, with a corresponding increase in frequency, of an electromagnetic wave
- [Redshift](/source/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](/source/Shapeshifting), a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales
- Shift vector, in [ADM formalism](/source/ADM_formalism) of General Relativity
- Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for [making out](/source/Making_out)
- [Tax shift](/source/Tax_shift), a fiscal policy

## See also

- [Shifter (disambiguation)](/source/Shifter_(disambiguation))
- [The Shift (disambiguation)](/source/The_Shift_(disambiguation))

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