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driftAdit Ad"it, n. [L. aditus, fr. adire, ?aitum, to go to; ad +
ire to go.]
1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly
horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which
water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift
and tunnel.
2. Admission; approach; access. [R.]
Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. --Tennyson. Drift
Drift Drift, n.
1. (Phys. Geog.) One of the slower movements of oceanic
circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to
occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind;
as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific.
2. (A["e]ronautics) The horizontal component of the pressure
of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine.
The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which
sustains the machine in the air.
Drift
Drift Drift, v. t.
1. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. --J. H.
Newman.
2. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or
sand.
3. (Mach.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Meaning of Drifts from wikipedia
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Drift or
Drifts may
refer to:
Drift or ford (crossing) of a
river Drift (navigation),
difference between...
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drifting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Drifting may
refer to:
Drifting (motorsport) Pipe
drift or
drifting,
measuring a pipe's
inner roundness...
- tip of
drift pin.
Drifts are
constructed from wood,
light alloys, copper, or
steel which are
usually rods cut to size as for the job.
Drifts can be used...
- The
Drift is the
thirteenth solo
studio album by
American singer-songwriter
Scott Walker,
released on 8 May 2006 on 4AD.
Apart from
composing the soundtrack...
- The term “set and
drift” is used to
describe external forces that
affect a boat and keep it from
following an
intended course. To
understand and calculate...
-
probability theory,
stochastic drift is the
change of the
average value of a
stochastic (random) process. A
related concept is the
drift rate,
which is the rate...
-
Drift seeds (also sea beans) and
drift fruits are
seeds and
fruits adapted for long-distance
dispersal by water. Most are
produced by
tropical trees, and...
- "
Drift & Die" is a song by
Puddle of Mudd,
released as the
third single from
their album Come
Clean in 2001. The song
previously appeared on
their 1994...
- {F}}\times {\boldsymbol {B}}}{B^{2}}}.}
These drifts, in
contrast to the
mirror effect and the non-uniform B
drifts, do not
depend on
finite Larmor radius,...
-
electrical engineering, and
particularly in telecommunications,
frequency drift is an
unintended and
generally arbitrary offset of an
oscillator from its...
