Raft (disambiguation)

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

Raft may also refer to:

Places

• Great Raft, a gigantic log jam in the Red River, Louisiana, United States
• Raft Island, a private island in Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
• Raft River, a river that flows from Utah to Idaho in the U.S.

People with the name

• George Raft (1895–1980), an American film actor

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

• Raft (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
• "The Raft" (short story), a horror short story by Stephen King

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Raft (band), a French band
• 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
• Raft, a computer survival game by Axolot Games

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 foundation
• Great raft, a log jam
• Rafting, a recreational activity utilizing a raft
• Timber rafting, a log transportation method

See Also

• The Raft (disambiguation), a disambiguation page for articles titled "The Raft"