Drift

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

 * 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 (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, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
 * 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