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Drift'''Drift''' is a slow change and may refer specifically to:
In the literal sense of a change in position of a body:
- Drifting (motorsport), which is a sport where drivers intentionally induce oversteer, to be judged on their technique.
- Drift (railroad), which in railroading is the cutting off of power and using inertia alone to maintain forward movement.
- The condition where a motor vehicle's rear wheels slip at a greater angle than the front wheels; see oversteer.
- Intentional use of oversteer for faster cornering in low road surface traction conditions; see Opposite lock
- Ice drift: drift of sea ice
- Snow drift: a deposit of snow created by the wind
In science and technology:
- Drift (linguistics): the variation of speech.
- Drift (telecommunication): the slow long-term variation of an attribute or value of a system or device.
- In Plasma (physics)|plasma physics, drift is the motion of the guiding center of a particle.
- Drift mining: a nearly horizontal underground tunnel.
- DRIFT (Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks): a dark matter experiment at the Boulby Underground Laboratory, Boulby mine, Cleveland, England.
- Drift (geology): Organic or inorganic debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.
- Genetic drift: mechanism of evolution that change the characteristics of species over time.
- Clock drift: a phenomenon where a clock does not run in the exact right speed compared to another clock.
- Drift (fluid mechanics): the permanent displacement of fluid particles in an inviscid fluid owing to their kinematic motion when a body passes through it.
- Continental drift
- A Punch (engineering)#Drift|Punch (engineering) used to align parts
In geography (In South Africa, drift is a synonym for Ford (crossing)|ford):
- Pont Drift on the Limpopo River on the road between South Africa and Botswana.
- Rorke's Drift, which is the site of 1879 battle between British Army|British and Zulu forces.
- Mostert's Drift, near Jonkershoek, on the Eerste River at Stellenbosch.
- Muldersdrift, near Johannesburg on the road between Krugersdorp and Pretoria.
- Velddrif, which is a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality.
- Xuka Drift on the upper reaches of the Mbashe River near Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape.
- Drift, Cornwall: a village – Drift Reservoir is nearby
In culture:
- Drift (album) is the fifth album by Flotsam and Jetsam (band)|Flotsam and Jetsam.
- Drift (Doctor Who), a ''Doctor Who'' novel.
- ''Drift (2000 film)'', a Cinema of Canada|Canadian film written and directed by Quentin Lee.
- ''Drift series'', an ongoing series of Cinema of Japan|Japanese film written and directed by Futoshi Jinno, debuting in 2006
- Drifting (film)|''Drifting'' (film), a 1923 film directed by Tod Browning
- ''"Drifting (1983 film)"'', the first Israeli gay-themed film.
See also:
- drifter
- Driftwood
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