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'''Drift''' or '''Drifts''' may refer to:
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==Geography ==
* Drift or [[ford (crossing)]] of a river
* [[Drift (navigation)]], difference between heading and course of a vessel
* [[Drift, Kentucky]], unincorporated community in the United States
* In Cornwall, England:
** [[Drift, Cornwall]], village
** [[Drift Reservoir]], associated with the village

== Science, technology, and physics ==
* [[Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks]], a dark-matter experiment
* [[Drift (video gaming)]], a typical game-controller malfunction
* [[Drift pin]], metalworking tool for localizing hammer blows and for aligning holes
* [[Drift (geology)]], deposited material of glacial origin
* drift (in mining), a roughly horizontal passage; an [[adit]]
* Drift, linear term of a [[stochastic process]]
* [[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)]], a type of language change
** [[Genetic drift]], change in allele frequency
** [[Drift (telecommunication)]], long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment
**[[Clock drift]] - variation in time-keeping
**[[Frequency drift]] - oscillator offset in electrical engineering
**[[Concept drift]] (in data-science and machine-learning applications)

==Film and television==
* [[Drift (film series)|''Drift'' (film series)]], 2006–2008 film series by Futoshi Jinno
* ''Drift'', 2006 TV crime drama film directed by [[Paul W. S. Anderson]]
* ''Drift'', fictional technology system that links the minds of two Jaeger pilots in the 2013 sci-fi film ''[[Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'' and its [[Pacific Rim Uprising|sequel]]
* [[Drift (2013 Australian film)|''Drift'' (2013 Australian film)]], film starring Sam Worthington
* [[Drift (2013 Belgian film)|''Drift'' (2013 Belgian film)]], art house film
* [[Drift (2015 film)|''Drift'' (2015 film)]], Swiss film
* [[Drift (2017 film)|''Drift'' (2017 film)]], German film
* ''Drift'', 2007 experimental short film by [[Max Hattler]]
* [[Drift (2023 film)|''Drift'' (2023 film)]], a film by Anthony Chen

==Books and Publishing==
* [[The Drift (magazine)|''The Drift'' (magazine)]]
* [[Drift (novel)|''Drift'' (novel)]], a 2002 ''Doctor Who'' novel
* ''[[Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power]]'', a book by Rachel Maddow
* [[Plot drift]], when a story deviates unexpectedly from its initial direction, in writing, television, or other media.

==Music==
* [[The Drift (band)]], American post-rock band
* Songs:
** "Drift", 1985 song from work  ‘’[[Secret (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song)|Secret]]’’
** [[Drift (Emily Osment song)|"Drift" (Emily Osment song)]] (2011)
** "Drift", end credits song of 2013 film ''[[Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]''
* Albums/EPs:
** [[Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album)|''Drift'' (Flotsam and Jetsam album)]] (1995)
** ''[[The Drift]]'', album by Scott Walker (2006)
** [[Drift (Ken Block album)|''Drift'' (Ken Block album)]] (2008)
** [[Drift (Nosaj Thing album)|''Drift'' (Nosaj Thing album)]] (2009)
** [[The Drift (EP)|''The Drift'' (EP)]], by Michelle Channel and Arjun Singh (2014)
** [[Drift (Erra album)|''Drift'' (Erra album)]] (2016)
** [[Drift (Underworld project)|''Drift'' (Underworld project)]], ongoing music-and-video experiment by that band (2018-2019)
**[[Drift (The Devlins album)]], 1993
* Drift, short for [[drift phonk]], a subgenre of phonk

==See also==
* [[Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal]] (DIRFT), a rail-road intermodal freight terminal in Northamptonshire, England
* [[Dérive]], an unplanned journey through a landscape
* [[Drifter (disambiguation)]]
* [[Drifting (disambiguation)]]
* [[Velddrif]], a town in South Africa
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