Churn
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Churn may refer to:
Dairy-product terms
Butter churn, device for churning butter
Churning (butter), the process of creating butter out of milk or cream
Milk churn, container for milk transportation
Geography
Devils Churn, Pacific inlet in Lincoln County, Oregon, U.S.
England:
River Churn, river running through Gloucestershire
Churn railway station (inactive)
British Columbia, Canada:
Churn Creek
Churn Creek Provincial Park, in Churn Creek Protected Area
Music
Churn (Shihad album), 1993
Churn (Seven Mary Three album), 1994
Computing
DHCP churn or IP churn in a computer network is the rate at which hosts change IP addresses.
Business
Product churning, a business practice whereby more of the product is sold than is beneficial to the consumer
Churning (finance), the excessive buying and selling of a client's stocks by a trader to generate large commission fees
Churn rate, a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collective over a specific period of time.
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