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, store, or elsewhere. It is raised off the floor and often anchored to a wall, supported on its shorter length sides by brackets, ...

, a flat horizontal surface used for display and storage

Geology

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

Ice shelf An ice shelf is a large floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland, Northern Canada, and the Russian Arctic. Th ...

, 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 halfway, about , between Bradford and Halifax, on the A6036 road. In 2001 it had a population of 4,496. At the 2011 Census Shelf was measured as part of ...

, 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 g ...

, a company or corporation that has had no activity * Shelf (organization), a UK health services organisation

Other uses

* Light shelf, 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 ...

, 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 furthe ...

, a registration arrangement for the sale of securities *

Sulphur shelf Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...

, an edible mushroom

Geology

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