Drift

Drift may mean:

Film and literature

• Drift (Doctor Who), 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 (Transformers), a fictional character
• Drift (2012 film), an Australian movie starring Sam Worthington

Geography

• Battle of Rorke's Drift, 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces
• Drift, Cornwall, a village
• Drift Reservoir, near Drift, Cornwall
• 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

Music

• Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album),1995
• The Drift, 2006 album by Scott Walker
• Drift (Ken Block album), 2008
• "Drift (Emily Osment song)", a 2011 song by Emily Osment

Science

• Clock drift
• Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks, a dark matter experiment
• Drift (geology)
• Continental drift
• Drift velocity
• Genetic drift, mechanism of evolution
• Stochastic drift, the average change over time in a random process
• 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
• Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform, a technique for spectra collection

See also

• Drifting (disambiguation)
• Drifter (disambiguation)
• Driftwood
• Daventry International Railfreight Terminal (DIRFT), in England
• Dérive, literally translated into English as drift