Shelf (
: shelves) may refer to:
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Shelf (storage)
A shelf ( : shelves) is a flat, horizontal plane used for items that are displayed or stored in a home, business, store, or elsewhere. It is raised off the floor and often anchored to a wall, supported on its shorter length sides by brackets, o ...
, a flat horizontal surface used for display and storage
Geology
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Continental shelf, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas
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Ice shelf
An ice shelf is a large floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland, Northern Canada, and the Russian Arctic. The ...
, a thick platform of ice floating on the ocean surface
Places and entities
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Shelf, West Yorkshire
Shelf is a village in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated halfway, about , between Bradford and Halifax, on the A6036 road. In 2001 it had a population of 4,496. At the 2011 Census Shelf was measured as part of t ...
, a village in England
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Shelf corporation
A shelf corporation, shelf company, or aged corporation is a company or corporation that has had no activity. It was created and left with no activity – metaphorically put on the "shelf" to "age". The company can then be sold to a person or gr ...
, a company or corporation that has had no activity
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Shelf (organization)
Shelf is a voluntary organisation created with the aim of bringing new levels of sexual health awareness to young people of the United Kingdom. It is unique in that it was founded by four Year 10 students of Peterborough in April 2007 and is sti ...
, a UK health services organisation
Other uses
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Light shelf
A light shelf is a horizontal surface that reflects daylight deep into a building. Light shelves are placed above eye-level and have high-reflectance upper surfaces, which reflect daylight onto the ceiling and deeper into the space.
Light shelve ...
, a reflective element placed outside of a window to enhance room illumination by natural light
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Shelf (computing)
The Shelf is an interface feature in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and is used as a repository to store links to commonly used files, directories and programs, and as a temporary "holding" place to move/copy files and directories around in the file syste ...
, a user interface feature in the NeXTSTEP operating system
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"Shelf" (song), a 2008 song by the Jonas Brothers
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Shelf life
Shelf life is the length of time that a commodity may be stored without becoming unfit for use, consumption, or sale. In other words, it might refer to whether a commodity should no longer be on a pantry shelf (unfit for use), or no longer on a ...
, the length of time that perishable items are considered suitable for sale or consumption
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Shelf registration Shelf registration, shelf offering, or shelf prospectus is a type of public offering where certain issuers are allowed to offer and sell securities to the public without a separate prospectus for each act of offering and without the issue of furthe ...
, a registration arrangement for the sale of securities
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Sulphur shelf, an edible mushroom
See also
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Off the shelf (disambiguation)
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