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, a bitwise operation that shifts all the bits of its operand
- Circular shift or bit rotation, often used in cryptography
- Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics
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