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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 shifter
 移位器

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 shifter
 乘數移位器

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 shifter
 移位器; 移帶器; 移( 磁 )頭器

From: Network Terminology

 shifter
 移位器

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shift·er n.
 1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
 'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known,
 Death was half glad when he had got him down.   --Milton.
 2. Naut. An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
 3. Mach. (a) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. (b) Knitting Mach. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 shifter
      n 1: a stagehand responsible for moving scenery [syn: sceneshifter]
      2: a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in
         England they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: gearshift,
          gearstick, gear lever]