Usually means: Movement of Earth's continental plates.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. continental drift: Merriam-Webster
  2. continental drift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continental drift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. continental drift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. continental drift: Vocabulary.com
  6. continental drift: Wordnik
  7. continental drift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. continental drift: Wiktionary
  9. continental drift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. continental drift: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. continental drift: Dictionary.com
  12. Continental Drift (novel), Continental Drift, Continental drift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. continental drift: Rhymezone
  14. continental drift: FreeDictionary.org
  15. continental drift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. continental drift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. continental drift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. continental drift: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. continental drift: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. continental drift: Evolution Glossary
  2. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (continental drift)

noun:  (geology) The slow movement of continents explained by plate tectonics.

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