Raft (disambiguation)

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A raft is a flat floating structure for travel over water.

Raft may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Raft (band), a French band
• Raft (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
• Raft (video game), a survival game developed by Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games
• The Raft (comics), a fictional prison in comic books published by Marvel
• "The Raft" (short story), a horror short story by Stephen King
• The Raft, a fictional refugee flotilla in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash

Computing and technology

• Raft (computer science), a distributed consensus protocol
• RaftLib, the Raft library for parallel processing with iostreams and compute kernels

Organizations

• Remote Area Firefighting Team (RAFT), firefighting specialists
• Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), a nonprofit organization supplying materials and ideas to teachers

Science

• RAFT (chemistry), reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer
• Lipid raft, a cholesterol-enriched microdomain in cell membranes
• Raft spider, a European spider of the family Pisauridae

Other uses

• Floating raft system, a type of design for the (underground) foundation of a building
• George Raft (1901–1980), American film actor
• Great Raft, a gigantic log jam in the Red River, Louisiana, U.S.
• Raft Island, a private island in Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
• Rafting, a recreational activity utilizing a raft
• Timber rafting, a method for transporting felled tree trunks

See also

• Raft River (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Raft

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