Shifter
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Shifter may mean:
  • Shifter (bicycle part)
    Shifter (bicycle part)
    A bicycle shifter or gear control or gear levers is a component used to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio. Typically, they operate either a derailleur mechanism or an internal hub gear mechanism. In either case, the control is operated by moving a cable that connects...

    , or gear lever, a bicycle part that selects which gear the chain rests on
  • Shifter (tool), an adjustable wrench/spanner
  • Shifter (Justice League Unlimited), a former superhero featured in the animated television series
  • Shifter (Dungeons & Dragons), a prestige class in the role-playing game
  • Shifter (Eberron), a race in the Eberron campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
  • The Gear stick lever, gearstick or gear lever of an automatic or manual transmission
  • A shapeshifting
    Shapeshifting
    Shapeshifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. It is also found in epic poems, science fiction literature, fantasy literature, children's literature, Shakespearean comedy, ballet, film, television, comics, and video games...

     character in science fiction, fantasy fiction, and role-playing games
  • A switcher
    Switcher
    A switcher or shunter is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been...

     in the terminology of the Pennsylvania Railroad
  • Jenny Everywhere
    Jenny Everywhere
    Jenny Everywhere aka "The Shifter" is an open source, public domain character. She was specifically created to be as such, when her creators could not find any other truly open source, public domain characters....

     aka The Shifter, open source webcomic character
  • Barrel shifter
    Barrel shifter
    A barrel shifter is a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits in one clock cycle. It can be implemented as a sequence of multiplexers , and in such an implementation the output of one mux is connected to the input of the next mux in a way that depends on the shift...

    , part of a computer processor that performs bit shifts

Comic books

  • Shifter, an action-comedy, creator-owned comic book by Brian G. Lefevre of Sho 'Nuff Studios, which features a firearm wielding anthropomorphic otter as the main character.

Computer games

  • Shifters of Might and Magic, an action-adventure video game set in the Might and Magic universe
  • Shifter (Series)
    Shifter (Series)
    -Scott Field:Scott Field is the main protagonist and only playable character in the series. He is first introduced in the opening of Episode One - Robotic Uprising, afflicted by a condition known as 'Rapid Amnesia', which causes long term memories to be seriously deteriorated.-Development:After a...

    , an Indie action-roleplaying game series currently in production
    • Shifter (Robotic Uprising)
      Shifter (Robotic Uprising)
      Shifter: Robotic Uprising is the name of a new single player game coming out for Mac OS X, Linux and Microsoft Windows. Not much information has been released as it is still in pre-alpha stage with the engine and main game components still under-construction....

      , the first episode in the Shifter series


Shifter is also the name of several mods for a number of computer games, including:
  • Starsiege: Tribes
    Starsiege: Tribes
    Starsiege: Tribes is a sci-fi first-person shooter video game. It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Earthsiege and Starsiege. It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra Entertainment in 1998.-History:A sequel, Tribes 2, was...

  • Deus Ex
    Deus Ex
    Deus Ex is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person shooters with those of role-playing video games...

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