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Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique •
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==