Shift

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) • 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 known as 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 == See also == • • • • • Shifter (disambiguation) • The Shift (disambiguation)