Drift

Drift may refer to:

The effect of wind and water pushing a body (person or thing around) usually in a current. A difference in drift rates becomes an urgent matter in a Man Over Board Event, and a positional drift constantly concerns Navigators and Pilots conning large vessels as well as Aviators conning aircraf: world-wide.

• 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.
• Drift, which is a term used to describe a shallow river crossing in South Africa:
  • 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 and Zulu forces.
  • Mostert's Drift, near Jonkershoek, on the Eerste River at Stellenbosch.
  • Mulder's Drift, 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
• Drift (linguistics ): the variation of speech.
• Drift (telecommunication): the slow long-term variation of an attribute or value of a system or device.
• Drift (plasma physics): the motion of the guiding centers of magnetized plasmas' particles.
• Drift mining: a nearly horizontal underground tunnel.
• Drift (geology): rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.
• Drift pin: several kinds of tools used for enlarging or aligning holes.
• Genetic drift: mechanism of evolution that change the characteristics of species over time.
• Snow drift: a deposit of snow created by the wind
• Ice drift: drift of sea ice
• Clock drift: a phenomenon where a clock does not run in the exact right speed compared to another clock.
• 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
• Drift - Dancer without a body, an online dance film. [1]
• Drift (film), a Japanese film. [2](Japanese only movie link)
• Drift (Fluid Mechanics): the permanent displacement of fluid particles in an inviscid fluid owing to their kinematic motion when a body passes through it.
• Drift (album) is the fifth album by Flotsam and Jetsam.
• Drift (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel.

See also:

• Driftwood
• Continental drift