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- Drift or Drifts may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
In film and television
- Drift (film series), a series of Japanese films written and directed by Futoshi Jinno
- Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
- Drift (Transformers), a fictional character
- Drift (2013 Australian film), an Australian film starring Sam Worthington
- Drift (2013 Belgian film), a Belgian art house film
- Drifts (film)
In literature
- Drift (novel), a 2002 Doctor Who novel
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a book by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow
In 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
Places
- Drift, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall, England
- Drift Reservoir, near Drift, Cornwall
- Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT), a rail-road intermodal freight terminal in Northamptonshire, England
- Velddrif, a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality
- Drift, Kentucky
In science and technology
In fluid dynamics
- Darwin drift, the long-term displacement of fluid by the passage of an object
- Stokes drift, the average velocity of a fluid parcel in fluid wave motion
- Drift velocity, flow velocity of a charged particle in a material due to an electric field
In geology
- Drift (geology), deposited material of glacial origin
- Continental drift, the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other
Other uses in science and technology
- Drift (linguistics), one of two types of language change, differentiated by time scale and directionality
- Drift (telecommunication), a long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment
- Clock drift
- Frequency drift, an unintended and generally arbitrary offset of an electrical oscillator from its nominal frequency
- Genetic drift, a mechanism of evolution
- Pipe drift, eccentricity or roundness in a pipe's inner wall
- Stochastic drift, the average change over time in a random process
- Drift pin, a metalworking tool used to align parts
- Drift mining, using a nearly horizontal underground tunnel
- Drift netting, a fishing technique where nets are allowed to drift free in a sea or lake
- Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform, an infrared spectroscopy technique
- Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks, a dark matter experiment
- Drifts of flowers, large colonies of naturalised plants
Other uses
- Driftwood, wood that has been washed onto the shore or beach of a sea, lake, or river
- Battle of Rorke's Drift, a 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces
- Dérive, French for "drift", describing an unplanned journey through a landscape
- Drift (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise
See also
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