Drift or Drifts may refer to:

Geography

* Drift or

ford (crossing) A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet. A ford may occur naturally or be constructed. Fords may be impassable during high water. A low-water cr ...

of a river * Drift, Kentucky, unincorporated community in the United States * In Cornwall, England: **

Drift, Cornwall Drift is a village on the A30 road in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is in the civil parish of Sancreed and is approximately two miles (3 km) west of Penzance and six miles (9 km) from Land's End. Nearby is a pair ...

, village **

Drift Reservoir Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, England, UK, just north of the village of Drift and west of Penzance. The reservoir is long and covers . The dam is at the southern end of the reservoir, and the northern end, splits into north-wester ...

, associated with the village

Science, technology, and physics

Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks The Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks (DRIFT) detector is a low pressure negative ion time projection chamber (NITPC) designed to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) - a prime dark matter candidate. There are current ...

, a dark matter experiment *

Drift (video gaming) This list includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players. 0–9 A ...

, a typical game controller malfunction *

Drift pin In metalworking, a drift pin, drift pin punch, simply drift, is the name for a tool used for localizing a hammer blow. A drift is smaller in diameter than the hammer face, thus concentrating the force into a smaller area. A drift is also used wh ...

, metalworking tool for localizing hammer blows and for aligning holes *

Drift (geology) In geology, drift is a name for all sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel, boulders) transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by glacial meltwater. Drift is often subdivided into (unsorted and) unstratified drift (gl ...

, deposited material of glacial origin * Drift, linear term of a

stochastic process In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables. Stochastic processes are widely used as mathematical models of systems and phenomena that appea ...

* Drift (motorsport), the controlled sliding of a vehicle through a sharp turn, either via over-steering with sudden sharp braking, or counter-steering with a sudden "clutch kick" acceleration * Incremental changes: **

Drift (linguistics) Two types of language change can be characterized as linguistic drift: a unidirectional short-term and cyclic long-term drift. Short-term unidirectional drift According to Sapir, drift is the unconscious change in natural language. He gives the ...

, a type of language change **

Genetic drift Genetic drift, also known as allelic drift or the Wright effect, is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population due to random chance. Genetic drift may cause gene variants to disappear completely and there ...

, change in allele frequency **

Drift (telecommunication) In telecommunication, a drift is a comparatively long-term change in an attribute, value, or operational parameter of a system or equipment. The drift should be characterized, such as "diurnal frequency drift" and "output level drift." Drift is usu ...

, long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment **

Clock drift Clock drift refers to several related phenomena where a clock does not run at exactly the same rate as a reference clock. That is, after some time the clock "drifts apart" or gradually desynchronizes from the other clock. All clocks are subject to ...

Frequency drift In electrical engineering, and particularly in telecommunications, frequency drift is an unintended and generally arbitrary offset of an oscillator from its nominal frequency. Causes may include component aging, changes in temperature that alter ...

** Drift (data science) ***

Concept drift In predictive analytics and machine learning, concept drift means that the statistical properties of the target variable, which the model is trying to predict, change over time in unforeseen ways. This causes problems because the predictions become ...

Film and television

* ''Drift'' (film series), 2006–2008 film series by Futoshi Jinno * ''Drift'', 2006 TV crime drama film directed by

Paul W. S. Anderson Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965) is an English filmmaker who regularly works in science fiction films and video game adaptations. Anderson made his feature film debut with the British independent film '' Shopping'' (1994), a ...

* ''Drift'', fictional technology system that links the minds of two Jaeger pilots in the 2013 sci-fi film ''

Pacific Rim The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The ''Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. List of co ...

'' and its

sequel A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the same ...

* ''Drift'' (2013 Australian film), film starring Sam Worthington * ''Drift'' (2013 Belgian film), art house film * ''Drift'' (2015 film), Swiss film * ''Drift'' (2017 film), German film * ''Drift'', 2007 experimental short film by

Max Hattler Max Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker. He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" (2005) and "Spin" (2010), abstract stop motion works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animation ...

* ''Drift'' (2023 film), a film by Anthony Chen

Books

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

Plot drift Plot drift, or narrative drift, is a phenomenon in storytelling in which the plot of the story deviates from its apparent initial direction. The phenomenon can affect written works, although it is often more noticeable in performed media such as te ...

, when a story deviates unexpectedly from its initial direction, in writing, television, or other media.

Music

The Drift (band) The Drift is a post-rock band from San Francisco, California. The Drift was founded in 2002 as a side project by Danny Grody, of Tarentel, and Trevor Montgomery, of Lazarus.Secret Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controvers ...

’’ ** "Drift" (Emily Osment song) (2011) ** "Drift", end credits song of 2013 film ''

'' * Albums/EPs: ** ''Drift'' (Flotsam and Jetsam album) (1995) ** ''

The Drift ''The Drift'' is the thirteenth studio album by American solo artist Scott Walker, released on 8 May 2006 on 4AD. Apart from composing the soundtrack to the film ''Pola X'', the album was Walker's first studio album in eleven years and only his ...

'', album by Scott Walker (2006) ** ''Drift'' (Ken Block album) (2008) ** ''Drift'' (Nosaj Thing album) (2009) ** ''The Drift'' (EP), by Michelle Channel and Arjun Singh (2014) ** ''Drift'' (Erra album) (2016) ** ''Drift'' (Underworld project), ongoing music-and-video experiment by that band

Geography

Science, technology, and physics

Film and television

Books

Music

See also