Shift - Definition and Overview

Shift may refer to

• a movement
• the shift key on a keyboard, harking back to typewriter days
• the analogue for literal strings, for example barrel shifter
• the analogue in mathematics, for example a shift operator
• derived meanings of change, such as red shift, Great vowel shift, paradigm shift
• a work shift, typically eight hours between set times; see shift work, graveyard shift
• also, a simple kind of undergarment.