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, a character in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' novel series * Shift (DC Comics), a

DC Comics DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...

character who is a fragment of

Metamorpho Metamorpho (Rex Mason) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Bob Haney and Ramona Fradon, the character debuted as the lead feature in The Brave and the Bold, ''The Brave and the Bold'' (January 1965). ...

Shift (Marvel Comics) S'Byll S'Byll (sometimes spelled S'byll) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. S'Byll is a Skrull that was raised on the planet Satriani. She was responsible for curing Super-Skrull of his disease. ...

, a

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...

character who is a clone of

Miles Morales Spider-Man (Miles Gonzalo MoralesAhmed, Saladin (w), Garrón, Javier (a). ''Miles Morales: Spider-Man'' #1 (2018) Marvel Comics (New York). ) is a superhero and the third predominant Spider-Man to appear in American comic books published by M ...

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) Shift (stylized as shift by msnbc, formerly msnbc2) was an online live-streaming video network run by MSNBC. It was launched in July 2014 to provide a platform for original video series which diverge from the MSNBC television network's political ...

, 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 Shift work is an employment practice designed to keep a service or production line operational at all times. The practice typically sees the day divided into shifts, set periods of time during which different groups of workers perform their ...

, an employment practice *

Shift Technologies (online marketplace) Shift Technologies, Inc. was an American company that sold used vehicles online and also maintained a consignment-based online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Founded in 2014, Shift was based in San Francisco's Mission District. , t ...

, a defunct American online marketplace for used cars *

SHIFT (company) Shift GmbH (styled as SHIFT) is a German smartphone and phablet manufacturer with its headquarters with design and development department in Wabern in Northern Hesse Germany and Production in China. The company focuses on fairness in manufactur ...

, a German company producing the Shiftphone * SHIFT Inc., a Japanese software testing company

Linguistics

Language shift Language shift, also known as language transfer, language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language, usually over an extended period of time. Often, languages that are perceived ...

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

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

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

sound change In historical linguistics, a sound change 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 chan ...

Vowel shift A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. The best-known example in the English language is the Great Vowel Shift, which began in the 15th century. The Greek language also underwent a v ...

Mathematics and computing

Barrel shifter A barrel shifter is a digital circuit that can bit shift, shift a word (data type), 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. I ...

, a digital circuit implementing bit shifts *

Bit shift In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It is a fast and simple action, basic to the higher-level arithmetic opera ...

, an operation treating a value as a sequence of binary digits **

Arithmetic shift In computer programming, an arithmetic shift is a shift operator, sometimes termed a signed shift (though it is not restricted to signed operands). The two basic types are the arithmetic left shift and the arithmetic right shift. For binary ...

Circular shift In combinatorial mathematics, a circular shift is the operation of rearranging the entries in a tuple, either by moving the final entry to the first position, while shifting all other entries to the next position, or by performing the inverse ope ...

, often used in cryptography **

Logical shift In computer science, a logical shift is a bitwise operation that shifts all the bits of its operand. The two base variants are the logical left shift and the logical right shift. This is further modulated by the number of bit positions a given v ...

Shift key The Shift key is a modifier key on a alphanumeric keyboard, keyboard, used to type majuscule, capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters. There are typically two Shift keys, on the left and right sides of the row below the home row. T ...

, a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard *

Shift operator In mathematics, and in particular functional analysis, the shift operator, also known as the translation operator, is an operator that takes a function to its translation . In time series analysis, the shift operator is called the '' lag opera ...

, 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 chemise or shift is a classic smock 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 commonly worn in ...

, a simple kind of undergarment or dress * Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon *

Gear shift A gear stick (rarely spelled ''gearstick''), gear lever (both British English, UK English), gearshift or shifter (both American English, U.S. English), more formally known as a transmission lever, is a metal lever attached to the transmission (me ...

, a lever to change gear in a vehicle *

Paradigm shift A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. It is a concept in the philosophy of science that was introduced and brought into the common lexicon by the American physicist a ...

, a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science *

Blueshift 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 increase in frequency and e ...

, 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 increase in frequency and e ...

, 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, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means. The idea of shapeshifting is found in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existen ...

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

ADM formalism The Arnowitt–Deser–Misner (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 nume ...

of General Relativity * Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for

making out Making out is a term of American English, American origin dating back to at least 1949, and is used to refer to kissing, including extended French kissing or ''necking'' (heavy kissing of the neck, and above), or to acts of non-penetrative s ...

Tax shift Tax shift or tax swap is a change in taxation that eliminates or reduces one or several taxes and establishes or increases others while keeping the overall revenue the same. Specifically, it is often used to refer to increases in indirect tax and ...

, a fiscal policy