(rare) The state, quality, or condition of being driftful.

simple past tense and past participle of drift off

simple past tense and past participle of drift apart

(geology) An accumulation of glacial till that has been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs.

Alternative spelling of snowdrift

(idiomatic) To understand, at least on some basic or general level.

The process whereby sand and shingle move along a beach shoreline when waves approach the shore at an angle.

(genetics, evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.

The tendency of an organism to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the conditioned response.

The space in an electron tube in which there is no modulated field