The effect of wind and water pushing a body (person or thing around) usually in a current. A ''difference in drift rates'' becomes an urgent matter in a ''Man Over Board'' Event , and a ''positional drift'' constantly concerns Navigators and Pilot s conning large vessels as well as Aviators conning aircraf: world-wide.
- Drifting (motorsport) , which is a sport where drivers intentionally induce oversteer, to be judged on their technique.
- Drift (railroad) , which in railroading is the cutting off of power and using Inertia alone to maintain forward movement.
- Drift , which is a term used to describe a shallow river crossing in South Africa :
- --- Pont Drift on the Limpopo River on the road between South Africa and Botswana .
- --- Rorke's Drift , which is the site of 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces.
- ---Mostert's Drift, near Jonkershoek , on the Eerste River at Stellenbosch .
- ---Mulder's Drift, near Johannesburg on the road between Krugersdorp and Pretoria .
- --- Velddrif , which is a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality .
- --- Xuka Drift on the upper reaches of the Mbashe River near Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape .
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- Drift (linguistics) : the variation of speech.
- Drift (telecommunication) : the slow long-term variation of an attribute or value of a system or device.
- Drift (plasma Physics) : the motion of the guiding centers of magnetized plasmas' particles.
- Drift Mining : a nearly horizontal underground tunnel.
- Drift (geology) : rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.
- Drift Pin : several kinds of tools used for enlarging or aligning holes.
- Genetic Drift : mechanism of evolution that change the characteristics of species over time.
- Snow Drift : a deposit of snow created by the wind
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- Clock Drift : a phenomenon where a clock does not run in the exact right speed compared to another clock.
- The condition where a motor vehicle's rear wheels slip at a greater angle than the front wheels; see Oversteer .
- Intentional use of oversteer for faster cornering in low road surface traction conditions; see Opposite Lock
- Drift - Dancer Without A Body , an online dance film. {Link without Title}
- Drift (film) , a Japanese film. {Link without Title} (Japanese only movie link)
- Drift (Fluid Mechanics) : the permanent displacement of fluid particles in an inviscid fluid owing to their kinematic motion when a body passes through it.
- Drift (album) is the fifth album by Flotsam And Jetsam .
- Drift (Doctor Who) , a '' Doctor Who '' novel.
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