Shift
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Shift generally means to change (position).
Shift may refer to:
- Gear shift, to change gears in a car
- Shift work, an employment practice
- Shift (music), a change of level in music
- Shift (magazine), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine
- Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon
- Shift (clothing), a simple kind of undergarment
- Shift the Ape, a character in the Chronicles of Narnia series
In mathematics and computing:
- Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard
- Bit shift, a bitwise operator in computing
- Barrel shifter, a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits
- Arithmetic shift in telecommunication
- Logical shift
- Circular shift or bit roation, often used in cryptography
- Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics
[edit] See also
- All pages beginning with Shift
- Red shift (disambiguation)
- Vowel shift, a change in the pronunciation of vowel sounds
- Paradigm shift, a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science
- Tax shift, a fiscal policy
- Baseball positioning, where "shift" is a strategic alteration in defenders' normal fielding locations

