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)
“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)
“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)