Drift
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- Drift or Drifts may mean:
Art, film, and literature
- Drift (novel), a 2002 Doctor Who novel
- Drift (film series), a series of Japanese films written and directed by Futoshi Jinno
- Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a book by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow
- Drift (Transformers), a fictional character
- Drift (2013 Australian film), an Australian film starring Sam Worthington
- Drift (2013 Belgian film), a Belgian art house film
- Dérive, French for "drift", and a psychogeographical term for a method of spontaneous exploration
Geography
- Driftwood, wood that has been washed onto the shore or beach of a sea, lake, or river
- Battle of Rorke's Drift, 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces
- Drift, Cornwall, a village
- Drift Reservoir, near Drift, Cornwall
- Daventry International Railfreight Terminal (DIRFT), a rail-road intermodal freight terminal in Northamptonshire, England.
- Velddrif, a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality
- Drift, Kentucky
Industry
- Drift pin, a metalworking tool used to align parts
- Drift mining, a nearly horizontal underground tunnel
- Drift netting, a fishing technique where nets, called drift nets, are allowed to drift free in a sea or lake
- Pipe drift, eccentricity or roundness in a pipe's inner wall
Music
- Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album), 1995
- The Drift, 2006 album by Scott Walker
- Drift (Ken Block album), 2008
- Drift (Nosaj Thing album), 2009
- "Drift" (Emily Osment song), 2011
Science
- Clock drift
- Continental drift
- Darwin drift, the long-term displacement of fluid by the passage of an object
- Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform, a technique for spectra collection
- Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks, a dark matter experiment
- Drift (geology)
- Drift (linguistics), a unidirectional short-term and cyclic long-term drift
- Drift (telecommunication), a comparatively long-term change in an attribute, value, or operational parameter of a system or equipment
- Drift velocity
- Genetic drift, mechanism of evolution
- Stochastic drift, the average change over time in a random process
- Stokes drift, the average velocity of a fluid parcel in fluid wave motion
See also
- Drifting (disambiguation)
- Drifter (disambiguation)