Shelf (: shelves) may refer to: *

Shelf (storage) A shelf (: shelves) is a flat, horizontal plane used for items that are displayed or stored in a home, business, Retailing, store, or elsewhere. It is raised off the floor and often anchored to a wall, supported on its shorter length sides by Bra ...

, a flat horizontal surface used for display and storage

Geology

Continental shelf A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods. The shelf surrounding an islan ...

, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas *

Ice shelf An ice shelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where the ice thickness is insufficient to displace the more dense surrounding ocean water. T ...

, a thick platform of ice floating on the ocean surface

Places and entities

Shelf, West Yorkshire Shelf is a village in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately north-east of Halifax and south-west of Bradford, on the A6036 road. In 2001 it had a population of 4,496. At the 2011 Census Shelf was mea ...

, a village in England *

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 *

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

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 *

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 * "Shelf" (song), a 2008 song by the Jonas Brothers *

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 s ...

, the length of time that perishable items are considered suitable for sale or consumption *

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 furth ...

, a registration arrangement for the sale of securities *

Sulphur shelf ''Laetiporus sulphureus'' is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees). Its common names include sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods. Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tre ...

, an edible mushroom

Geology

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