Drift
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- 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 Pilots conning large vessels as well as Aviators conning aircraf: world-wide.
- 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.
- Drift, Cornwall: a village – Drift Reservoir is nearby
- 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
- Ice drift: drift of sea ice
- 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; see Opposite lock
- Drifting (motorsport), which is a sport where drivers intentionally induce oversteer, to be judged on their technique.
- Drift (film), a Japanese film. [1](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.
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