Shift

Shift may refer to:

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 (business), an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling 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 keyboard or typewriter
 * 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