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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
  • Drift (The Devlins album), 1993
• Drift, short for drift phonk, a subgenre of phonk