Drift
Drift ( "driving" ) stands for:
- Drift in the air and maritime technology, the deviation of the price from heading
- Drift (plant protection), in agriculture, the getting lost of pesticides during application
- Drift ( linguistics), in linguistics a slow language change
- Drift ( Communications Engineering ), in communications engineering a slow change in the signal
- Drifting (motorsport), in motorsport also an independent form of competition
- Drift velocity in the slow component of the physics of movement of the carriers in the electric field
- Drift current in the hydrology near-surface flow through the influence of wind
- Ice drift, the movement of sea ice in a main direction
- Genetic drift, genetic changes in genetics in subsequent generations
- Continental drift, plate tectonics in the
- In limnology the spread of river organisms with the flow
- Some providers for electricity and gas from northern Germany
- In metrology a continuously changing measurement error
- In the driving technique a state in which the vehicle has a velocity vector with a large angle to its longitudinal axis, see oversteer and understeer
- In rural areas a way for the cattle drive
DRIFT is an abbreviation for:
- Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform, see DRIFTS
Drift is the surname of:
- Chris van der Drift (* 1986), New Zealand racing driver
See also:
- Pasture
- Disambiguation
- Abbreviation