Churn

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.

Other

• Churn drill, large-diameter drilling machine large holes appropriate for holes in the ground
• Chuck Churn (born 1930), Major League Baseball pitcher in 1957–1959
• Churning (cipher), an encryption function used in the ITU G.983.1 standard