Drift or Drifts may refer to:
Geography
* Drift or
ford (crossing)
A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, on horseback, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet. A ford may occur naturally or be constructed. Fords may be impassable during high water. ...
of a river
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Drift (navigation), difference between heading and course of a vessel
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Drift, Kentucky, unincorporated community in the United States
* In Cornwall, England:
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Drift, Cornwall, village
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Drift Reservoir
Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, England, UK, just north of the village of Drift and west of Penzance. The reservoir is long and covers . The dam is at the southern end of the reservoir, and the northern end, splits into north-weste ...
, associated with the village
Science, technology, and physics
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Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks, a dark-matter experiment
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Drift (video gaming), a typical game-controller malfunction
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Drift pin, metalworking tool for localizing hammer blows and for aligning holes
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Drift (geology)
In geology, drift is a name for all sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel, boulders) transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by glacial meltwater. Drift is often subdivided into unstratified (unsorted) drift ( gl ...
, deposited material of glacial origin
* drift (in mining), a roughly horizontal passage; an
adit
An adit (from Latin ''aditus'', entrance) or stulm
is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine.
Miners can use adits for access, drainage, ventilation, and extracting minerals at the lowest convenient level. Adits are a ...
* Drift, linear term of a
stochastic process
In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables in a probability space, where the index of the family often has the interpretation of time. Sto ...
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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:
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Drift (linguistics), a type of language change
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Genetic drift
Genetic drift, also known as random genetic drift, allelic drift or the Wright effect, is the change in the Allele frequency, frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population due to random chance.
Genetic drift may cause gene va ...
, change in allele frequency
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Drift (telecommunication) In telecommunications, a drift is a comparatively long-term change in an attribute, value, or operational parameter of a system or equipment. The drift should be characterized, such as "diurnal frequency drift" and "output level drift." Drift is u ...
, long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment
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Clock drift
Clock drift refers to several related phenomena where a clock does not run at exactly the same rate as a reference clock. That is, after some time the clock "drifts apart" or gradually desynchronizes from the other clock. All clocks are subject to ...
- variation in time-keeping
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Frequency drift
In electrical engineering, and particularly in telecommunications, frequency drift is an unintended and generally arbitrary offset of an oscillator from its nominal frequency. Causes may include component aging, changes in temperature that alter ...
- oscillator offset in electrical engineering
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Concept drift
In predictive analytics, data science, machine learning and related fields, concept drift or drift is an evolution of data that invalidates the data model. It happens when the statistical properties of the target variable, which the model is trying ...
(in data-science and machine-learning applications)
Film and television
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''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
The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The '' Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geological Pacific Ring of Fire.
List ...
'' and its
sequel
A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the same ...
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''Drift'' (2013 Australian film), film starring Sam Worthington
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''Drift'' (2013 Belgian film), art house film
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''Drift'' (2015 film), Swiss film
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''Drift'' (2017 film), German film
* ''Drift'', 2007 experimental short film by
Max Hattler
Max Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker. He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" (2005) and "Spin" (2010), abstract stop motion works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animatio ...
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''Drift'' (2023 film), a film by Anthony Chen
Books and Publishing
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''The Drift'' (magazine)
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''Drift'' (novel), a 2002 ''Doctor Who'' novel
* ''
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power'', a book by Rachel Maddow
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Plot drift, when a story deviates unexpectedly from its initial direction, in writing, television, or other media.
Music
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The Drift (band), American post-rock band
* Songs:
** "Drift", 1985 song from work ‘’
Secret
Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret.
Secrecy is often controver ...
’’
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"Drift" (Emily Osment song) (2011)
** "Drift", end credits song of 2013 film ''
Pacific Rim
The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The '' Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geological Pacific Ring of Fire.
List ...
''
* Albums/EPs:
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''Drift'' (Flotsam and Jetsam album) (1995)
** ''
The Drift'', album by Scott Walker (2006)
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''Drift'' (Ken Block album) (2008)
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''Drift'' (Nosaj Thing album) (2009)
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''The Drift'' (EP), by Michelle Channel and Arjun Singh (2014)
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''Drift'' (Erra album) (2016)
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''Drift'' (Underworld project), ongoing music-and-video experiment by that band (2018-2019)
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Drift (The Devlins album), 1993
* Drift, short for
drift phonk
Phonk () is a subgenre of hip hop music, hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap. The genre is characterized by its use of vintage Memphis rap vocals, chopped and screwed production techniques, and Sampling (music), sample ...
, a subgenre of phonk
See also
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Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT), a rail-road intermodal freight terminal in Northamptonshire, England
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Dérive
The ''dérive'' (, "drift") is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually city, urban, in which participants stop focusing on their everyday relations to their social environment. Developed by members of the Letterist International, it ...
, an unplanned journey through a landscape
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Drifter (disambiguation)
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Drifting (disambiguation)
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Velddrif, a town in South Africa
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