Drift

Drift or Drifts may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

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 (2013 Australian film), an Australian film starring Sam Worthington
Drift (2013 Belgian film), a Belgian art house film
Drifts (film)

Drift (novel), a 2002 Doctor Who novel
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a book by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow

Drift, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall, England
Drift Reservoir, near Drift, Cornwall
Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT), a rail-road intermodal freight terminal in Northamptonshire, England
Velddrif, a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality
Drift, Kentucky

Darwin drift, the long-term displacement of fluid by the passage of an object
Stokes drift, the average velocity of a fluid parcel in fluid wave motion
Drift velocity, flow velocity of a charged particle in a material due to an electric field

Drift (geology), deposited material of glacial origin
Continental drift, the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other

Drift (linguistics), one of two types of language change, differentiated by time scale and directionality
Drift (telecommunication), a long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment
Clock drift
Frequency drift, an unintended and generally arbitrary offset of an electrical oscillator from its nominal frequency
Genetic drift, a mechanism of evolution
Pipe drift, eccentricity or roundness in a pipe's inner wall
Stochastic drift, the average change over time in a random process
Drift pin, a metalworking tool used to align parts
Drift mining, using a nearly horizontal underground tunnel
Drift netting, a fishing technique where nets are allowed to drift free in a sea or lake
Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform, an infrared spectroscopy technique
Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks, a dark matter experiment
Drifts of flowers, large colonies of naturalised plants

Driftwood, wood that has been washed onto the shore or beach of a sea, lake, or river
Battle of Rorke's Drift, a 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces
Dérive, French for "drift", describing an unplanned journey through a landscape
Drift (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise