shifting adj

1 continuously moving or changing from position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"

2 continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"

3 (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth" [syn: unfirm] n : the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" [syn: shift]

English

Verb

shifting

1. present participle of shift

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

See also

• lookfrom 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

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