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 * Shift (Marvel Comics), 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), 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 Technologies (online marketplace), a defunct American online marketplace for used cars * SHIFT (company), 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), 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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, a fiscal policy