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Drift or Drifts may refer to:
Geography
[edit]- Drift or ford (crossing) of a river
- Drift (navigation), difference between heading and course of a vessel
- Drift, Kentucky, unincorporated community in the United States
- In Cornwall, England:
- Drift, Cornwall, village
- Drift Reservoir, associated with the village
Science, technology, and physics
[edit]- Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks, a dark-matter experiment
- Drift (video gaming), a typical game-controller malfunction
- Drift pin, metalworking tool for localizing hammer blows and for aligning holes
- Drift (geology), deposited material of glacial origin
- drift (in mining), a roughly horizontal passage; an adit
- Drift, linear term of a stochastic process
- Drift (motorsport), the controlled sliding of a vehicle through a sharp turn, either via over-steering with sudden sharp braking, or counter-steering with a sudden "clutch kick" acceleration
- Incremental changes:
- Drift (linguistics), a type of language change
- Genetic drift, change in allele frequency
- Drift (telecommunication), long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment
- Clock drift - variation in time-keeping
- Frequency drift - oscillator offset in electrical engineering
- Concept drift (in data-science and machine-learning applications)
Film and television
[edit]- Drift (film series), 2006–2008 film series by Futoshi Jinno
- Drift, 2006 TV crime drama film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
- Drift, fictional technology system that links the minds of two Jaeger pilots in the 2013 sci-fi film Pacific Rim and its sequel
- Drift (2013 Australian film), film starring Sam Worthington
- Drift (2013 Belgian film), art house film
- Drift (2015 film), Swiss film
- Drift (2017 film), German film
- Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
- Drift (2023 film), a film by Anthony Chen
Books and Publishing
[edit]- The Drift (magazine)
- Drift (novel), a 2002 Doctor Who novel
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a book by Rachel Maddow
- Plot drift, when a story deviates unexpectedly from its initial direction, in writing, television, or other media.
Music
[edit]- The Drift (band), American post-rock band
- Songs:
- "Drift", 1985 song from work ‘’Secret’’
- "Drift" (Emily Osment song) (2011)
- "Drift", end credits song of 2013 film Pacific Rim
- Albums/EPs:
- Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album) (1995)
- The Drift, album by Scott Walker (2006)
- Drift (Ken Block album) (2008)
- Drift (Nosaj Thing album) (2009)
- The Drift (EP), by Michelle Channel and Arjun Singh (2014)
- Drift (Erra album) (2016)
- Drift (Underworld project), ongoing music-and-video experiment by that band (2018-2019)
- Drift (The Devlins album), 1993
- Drift, short for drift phonk, a subgenre of phonk
See also
[edit]- Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT), a rail-road intermodal freight terminal in Northamptonshire, England
- Dérive, an unplanned journey through a landscape
- Drifter (disambiguation)
- Drifting (disambiguation)
- Velddrif, a town in South Africa
- All pages with titles beginning with Drift
- All pages with titles containing drift