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 Shift is a fictional character in the children's fantasy series ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' by C. S. Lewis. He is the main antagonist of ''The Last Battle'', which is the last book of the series. Shift is an ape who, like many animals in Lewis' w ...

, a character in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' novel series

Music

* ''Shift'' (Nasum album), 2004 *

Shift (The Living End album) ''Shift'' is the seventh studio album by Australian punk rock band The Living End, released in May 2016. It was produced by Paul Annison and recorded at Red Door Sounds in Melbourne, Australia. Track listing All tracks are written by Chris ...

Shift (music) __NOTOC__ On a string instrument, position is the relative location of the hand on the instrument's Neck (music), neck, indicated by ordinal number (linguistics), ordinal numbers (e.g., 3rd). Fingering (music)#String instruments, Fingering, indep ...

, a change of level in music *

Shift (string technique) __NOTOC__ On a string instrument, position is the relative location of the hand on the instrument's neck, indicated by ordinal numbers (e.g., 3rd). Fingering, independent of position, is indicated by numbers, 1-4. Different positions on the same ...

, 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 (business) Shift Technologies, Inc. is an American company that maintains an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Founded in 2014, Shift is based in San Francisco’s Mission District. , the company offers its services in the San Francisco Ba ...

, an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars * SHIFT (company), a German company producing the Shiftphone *

SHIFT Inc. is a Japanese software testing company, headquartered in Tokyo, that provides software quality assurance and software testing solutions. Overview SHIFT Inc. was founded in 2005 by Masaru Tange, who was a manufacturing process improvement cons ...

, a Japanese software testing company

Linguistics

* Language shift, the process in which a community of speakers shift to speaking a different language *

Shifting (syntax) In syntax, shifting occurs when two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions in a sense to obtain non-canonical order. The most widely acknowledged type of shifting is heavy NP shift, but shifting invo ...

, a syntactic process * Sound shift, also known as sound shifting or

sound change A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic chang ...

** Vowel shift

Mathematics and computing

Barrel shifter A barrel shifter is a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits without the use of any sequential logic, only pure combinational logic, i.e. it inherently provides a binary operation. It can however in theory also ...

, 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 keyboard or typewriter * Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics

Sports

Shift (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a line is a group of forwards that play in a group, or "shift", during a game. A complete forward line consists of a left wing, a center, and a right wing, while a pair of defensemen who play together are called "partners." Typic ...

, a group of players in ice hockey * Infield shift, a defensive alignment in baseball and softball

Other uses

Shift (clothing) A chemise or shift is a classic smock, or a modern type of women's undergarment or dress. Historically, a chemise was a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect clothing from sweat and body oils, the precursor to the modern shirts commo ...

, a simple kind of undergarment or dress *

Shift (weapon) A shiv, also chiv, schiv, shivvie, or shank, is a handcrafted bladed-weapon resembling a knife that is commonly associated with London. Since blades are highly prohibited in the United Kingdom, the intended mode of concealment is central t ...

, an improvised knife used as a weapon * Gear shift, a lever to change gear in a vehicle *

Paradigm shift A paradigm shift, a concept brought into the common lexicon by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. Even though Kuhn restricted t ...

, 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 In physics, a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light). The opposite change, a decrease in wavelength and simultaneous increase in f ...

, 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 In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shape-shifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, Magic (paranormal), sorcery, Incantation, ...

, a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales * Shift vector, in

ADM formalism The ADM formalism (named for its authors Richard Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner) is a Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity that plays an important role in canonical quantum gravity and numerical relativity. It was fir ...

of General Relativity * Shift work, an employment practice * Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out * Tax shift, a fiscal policy