Niche ( /ˈniːʃ/ or /ˈnɪtʃ/) may refer to:
- Niche (architecture), an exedra or an apse that has been reduced in size;
- Niche (footballer) (b. 1985), Colombian/Spanish football (soccer) player, full name Víctor Manuel Micolta Armero
- Niche (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- Bassline (dance music), a type of music related to UK garage also called Niche
- Developmental niche, a concept for understanding the cultural context of child development
- Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species
- Niche market, a focused, targetable portion (subset) of a market sector.
- Niche blogging, a blog focused on a niche market (above)
- Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders, a program of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing
- Niche cell, specific anatomic locations that regulate how stem-cell populations participate in tissue generation, maintenance and repair
- Stem cell niche, the microenvironment in which stem cells are found
Famous quotes containing the word niche:
“They sat together halfway up a cliff
In a small niche let into it, the girl
Brightly, as if a star played on the place,
Paul darkly, like her shadow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It’s so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“You’re neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you’re as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you’re unexplained as yet—you’ve not got your niche in creation.”
—Radclyffe Hall (1883–1943)