title: Left shift
text: # Left shift
  
  Left shift may refer to:
  
  * Left shift (medicine), a medical term similar to blood shift
  * Logical left shift, a computer operation
  * Arithmetic left shift, a computer operation
  * Left Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard
  * Left Shift (political group) (aka Linksruck), a former Trotskyist group in Germany
  * Left shift (quality assurance), thinking about quality earlier in the product development lifecycle
  