Drift or Drifts may refer to:

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

  • Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique
  • 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), 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 and its sequel
  • Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
  • 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 (2023 film), a film by Anthony Chen

Books and Publishing

  • The Drift (magazine)
  • 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’’
  • "Drift" (Emily Osment song) (2011)
  • "Drift", end credits song of 2013 film Pacific Rim
  • Albums/EPs:
  • Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album) (1995)
  • The Drift, 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 (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