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A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull. Rafts are usually kept afloat by using any combination of buoyant materials such as wood, sealed barrel ...
is a flat floating structure for travel over water.
Raft may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Raft (band), a French band
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''Raft'' (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
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''Raft'' (video game), a survival game developed by Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games
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The Raft (comics)
The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features.
Places
Certain places fe ...
, a fictional prison in comic books published by Marvel
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"The Raft" (short story), a horror short story by Stephen King
*The Raft, a fictional refugee flotilla in Neal Stephenson's novel ''
Snow Crash
''Snow Crash'' is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography ...
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Computing and technology
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Raft (computer science), a distributed consensus protocol
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RaftLib
RaftLib is a portable parallel processing system that aims to provide extreme performance while increasing programmer productivity. It enables a programmer to assemble a massively parallel program (both local and distributed) using simple iostream ...
, the Raft library for parallel processing with iostreams and compute kernels
Organizations
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Remote Area Firefighting Team (RAFT), firefighting specialists
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Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), a nonprofit organization supplying materials and ideas to teachers
Science
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RAFT (chemistry)
A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull. Rafts are usually kept afloat by using any combination of buoyant materials such as wood, sealed barrels ...
, reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer
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Lipid raft
The plasma membranes of cells contain combinations of glycosphingolipids, cholesterol and protein receptors organised in glycolipoprotein lipid microdomains termed lipid rafts. Their existence in cellular membranes remains somewhat controversial. ...
, a cholesterol-enriched microdomain in cell membranes
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Raft spider
The raft spider, scientific name ''Dolomedes fimbriatus'', is a large semi-aquatic spider of the family Pisauridae found throughout north-western and central Europe. It is one of only two species of the genus ''Dolomedes'' found in Europe, the ot ...
, a European spider of the family Pisauridae
Other uses
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Floating raft system
Floating raft is a land-based building foundation that protects it against settlement and liquefaction of soft soil from seismic activity. It was a necessary innovation in the development of tall buildings in the wet soil of Chicago in the 19th ce ...
, a type of design for the (underground) foundation of a building
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George Raft
George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is ...
(1901–1980), American film actor
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Great Raft
The Great Raft was a gigantic log jam or series of "rafts" that clogged the Red and Atchafalaya rivers and was unique in North America in terms of its scale.
Origin
The Great Raft probably began forming in the 12th century. It grew from its u ...
, a gigantic log jam in the Red River, Louisiana, U.S.
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Raft Island, a private island in Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
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Rafting
Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. Dealing with risk is often a ...
, a recreational activity utilizing a raft
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Timber rafting
Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest mean ...
, a method for transporting felled tree trunks
See also
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Raft River (disambiguation)
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