shifting

A moving or removal; change from one place, position, or state to another; change.

Recourse to shifts, or petty expedients; artifice; shift.

Changing; changeable or changeful; varying; unstable: as, shifting winds.

Shifty.

Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle.

Adapted or used for shifting anything.

temporary stays that have to be let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.

ballast which may be moved from one side of a vessel to another as safety requires.

See Metacenter.

See Switching engine, under Switch.