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Definition of drift

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Adit 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.
Drift
Drift Drift, a. That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. --Kane. Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n. Drift epoch (Geol.), the glacial epoch. Drift net, a kind of fishing net. Drift sail. Same as Drag sail. See under Drag, n.

Meaning of drift from wikipedia

- Look up drift in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drift or Drifts may refer to: Drift or ford (crossing) of a river Drift (navigation), difference between...
- The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the...
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is a 2006 action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is a standalone sequel to The Fast...
- Look up drifting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drifting may refer to: Drifting (motorsport) Pipe drift or drifting, measuring a pipe's inner roundness...
- Drifting is a driving technique where the driver purposely oversteers, with loss of traction, while maintaining control and driving the car through the...
- Clock drift refers to several related phenomena where a clock does not run at exactly the same rate as a reference clock. That is, after some time the...
- was created and po****rized by rapper SpaceGhostPurrp in the early 2010s. Drift phonk is a subgenre of phonk that emerged in Russia in the late-2010s; its...
- analytics, data science, machine learning and related fields, concept drift or drift is an evolution of data that invalidates the data model. It happens...
- drift should be characterized, such as "diurnal frequency drift" and "output level drift." Drift is usually undesirable and unidirectional, but may be bidirectional...
- "Drift Away" is a song written by Mentor Williams in 1970 and first recorded by British singer Mike Berry on his 1972 album Drift Away. A version by John...