Shift

Shift may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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