Drift
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Film and literature

  • Drift (Doctor Who)
    Drift (Doctor Who)
    Drift is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon A. Forward and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor and Leela.-Synopsis:...

    , a 2002 Doctor Who novel
  • Drift (film series)
    Drift (film series)
    The film series consist of street racing films produced by Geneon Universal Entertainment released between 2006 to 2008. All the films are set on racing touge roads.-Drift 7 R :Known as Drift GT-R on Hong Kong releases....

    , a series of Japanese films written and directed by Futoshi Jinno
  • Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
    Max Hattler
    Max Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker best known for his kaleidoscopic political short films “Collision” and "Spin" , abstract stop motion work "AANAATT" , and psychedelic animation loops "1923 aka Heaven" and "1925 aka Hell" .- Biography :Max Hattler was born in Ulm,...

  • Drift (Transformers)
    Drift (Transformers)
    Drift is the name of three different fictional characters in the Transformers series. For trademark reasons, toys related to the character are marketed under the name Autobot Drift.-Transformers: Armada:...

    , a fictional character
  • Drift (2012 film), an Australian movie starring Sam Worthington
    Sam Worthington
    Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington is an English born, Australian actor. After almost a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Worthington gained Hollywood's attention by playing Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation and the lead role, Jake Sully, in James Cameron's science...


Geography

  • Battle of Rorke's Drift, 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces
  • Drift, Cornwall
    Drift, Cornwall
    Drift is a village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village is in the civil parish of Sancreed approximately two miles west of Penzance and six miles from Land's End at...

    , a village
  • Drift Reservoir
    Drift Reservoir
    Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, UK, just north of Drift village, southwest of Penzance. The reservoir is approximately a mile long. It has a large dam at its southern end, and at the northern end, splits into a northwestern and a northeastern arm...

    , near Drift, Cornwall
  • Velddrif
    Velddrif
    Velddrif or Velddrift is a coastal fishing town in the Bergrivier Local Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. It is located on the estuary where the Berg River flows into St. Helena Bay.-Geography and environment:...

    , a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality
  • Drift, Kentucky
    Drift, Kentucky
    Drift, Kentucky is an unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. As of the census of 2000, there were 569 people residing in the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for Drifts ZIP code ....


Industry

  • Drift pin
    Drift pin
    In metalworking, a drift pin, drift pin punch, or simply drift, is the name for a tool used for enlarging holes, or aligning holes prior to bolting or riveting metal parts together. A drift pin is not used as a punch in the traditional sense of the term. A drift pin is used as an aid in aligning...

    , a metalworking tool used to align parts
  • Drift mining
    Drift mining
    Drift mining is either the mining of a placer deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed. Drift is a more general mining term, meaning a near-horizontal passageway in a mine, following the bed or vein of ore. A...

    , a nearly horizontal underground tunnel
  • Drift netting, a fishing technique where nets, called drift nets, are allowed to drift free in a sea or lake

Music

  • Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album),1995
  • The Drift
    The Drift
    - Personnel :* Scott Walker – Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Sax, Sound Treatment* Hugh Burns – Guitar* Ian Thomas – Drums* Mark Warman – Keyboards, Orchestration, Conducting, Percussion, Woodwind, Sound Treatment* Philip Sheppard – Orchestration, Conducting, Cello...

    , 2006 album by Scott Walker
  • Drift (Ken Block album)
    Drift (Ken Block album)
    Drift, released December 9, 2008, is the debut solo album by Sister Hazel's lead singer and acoustic guitarist Ken Block.-Track listing:All tracks by Ken Block except were noted#"Blue to a Blind Man" – 3:56...

    , 2008
  • "Drift (Emily Osment song)", a 2011 song by Emily Osment
    Emily Osment
    Emily Jordan Osment is an American teen actress, singer-songwriter and voice actress born in Los Angeles, California. After working in several television films in her childhood, she gained fame for co-starring as Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over...


Science

  • Clock drift
    Clock drift
    Clock drift refers to several related phenomena where a clock does not run at the exact right speed compared to another clock. That is, after some time the clock "drifts apart" from the other clock. This phenomenon is also used for instance in computers to build random number generators...

  • Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks
    Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks
    The Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks detector is a low pressure negative ion time projection chamber designed to detect weakly interacting massive particles - a prime dark matter candidate....

    , a dark matter experiment
  • Drift (geology)
    Drift (geology)
    In geology, drift is the name for all material of glacial origin found anywhere on land or at sea , including sediment and large rocks...

  • Continental drift
    Continental drift
    Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912...

  • Drift velocity
    Drift velocity
    The drift velocity is the average velocity that a particle, such as an electron, attains due to an electric field. It can also be referred to as Axial Drift Velocity since particles defined are assumed to be moving along a plane. In general, an electron will 'rattle around' in a conductor at the...

  • Genetic drift
    Genetic drift
    Genetic drift or allelic drift is the change in the frequency of a gene variant in a population due to random sampling.The alleles in the offspring are a sample of those in the parents, and chance has a role in determining whether a given individual survives and reproduces...

    , mechanism of evolution
  • Stochastic drift
    Stochastic drift
    In probability theory, stochastic drift is the change of the average value of a stochastic process. A related term is the drift rate which is the rate at which the average changes. This is in contrast to the random fluctuations about this average value...

    , the average change over time in a random process
  • Drift (linguistics)
    Drift (linguistics)
    There are two types of 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...

    , a unidirectional short-term and cyclic long-term drift
  • Drift (telecommunication)
    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 usually undesirable and unidirectional, but may be...

    , a comparatively long-term change in an attribute, value, or operational parameter of a system or equipment
  • Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform
    Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform
    Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy is an infrared spectroscopy spectra technique used on powder samples with no preparation. The sample is added to a sample cup and the data is collected on the bulk sample. The infrared light on a sample is reflected and transmitted at...

    , a technique for spectra collection

See also

  • Drifting (disambiguation)
  • Drifter (disambiguation)
  • Driftwood
    Driftwood
    Driftwood is wood that has been washed onto a shore or beach of a sea or river by the action of winds, tides, waves or man. It is a form of marine debris or tidewrack....

  • Daventry International Railfreight Terminal
    Daventry International Railfreight Terminal
    Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal is a rail port and logistics centre located near Rugby, Warwickshire and Crick, Northamptonshire just south of the beginning of the M6 Motorway and near junction 18 of the M1 motorway...

     (DIRFT), in England
  • Dérive
    Dérive
    In psychogeography, a dérive is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, where an individual travels where the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct them with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic...

    , literally translated into English as drift
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