plural of drifting

One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.

(fishing) A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat

(intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drift, off. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall asleep slowly. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To lose concentration.

plural of drift space

plural of genetic drift

(idiomatic, intransitive, of companions) To lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness.

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

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.