Raft (disambiguation)
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A raft is a flat floating structure for travel over water.
Raft may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Raft (band), a French band
- Raft (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
- Raft (video game), a survival game developed by Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games
- The Raft (comics), a fictional prison in comic books published by Marvel
- "The Raft" (short story), a horror short story by Stephen King
- The Raft, a fictional refugee flotilla in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash
Computing and technology
[edit]- Raft (computer science), a distributed consensus protocol
- RaftLib, the Raft library for parallel processing with iostreams and compute kernels
Organizations
[edit]- Remote Area Firefighting Team (RAFT), firefighting specialists
- Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), a nonprofit organization supplying materials and ideas to teachers
Science
[edit]- RAFT (chemistry), reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer
- Lipid raft, a cholesterol-enriched microdomain in cell membranes
- Raft spider, a European spider of the family Pisauridae
Other uses
[edit]- Floating raft system, a type of design for the (underground) foundation of a building
- George Raft (1901–1980), American film actor
- Great Raft, a gigantic log jam in the Red River, Louisiana, U.S.
- Raft Island, a private island in Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
- Rafting, a recreational activity utilizing a raft
- Timber rafting, a method for transporting felled tree trunks