Niche vs Category - What's the difference?
niche | category |
(architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. Hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
(biology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
(by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
An arrow woven into a Muslim prayer rug pointing in the direction of Mecca.
To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.
* 2002 , Frederick Betz, Executive Strategy (page 92)
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
As a verb niche
is .As a noun category is
a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.niche
English
(wikipedia niche)Noun
(en noun)- "Images defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed." --Evelyn.
Synonyms
* (position of opportunity) specialty, specialization,Derived terms
* fundamental niche * niche marketSee also
*Verb
- Product differentiation will be mostly limited to market niching and fashion.
Anagrams
* English borrowed terms ----category
English
(wikipedia category)Noun
(categories)- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories'' of various types. Thus, words like ''boy'', ''girl'', ''man'', ''woman'', etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category''' of Nouns, whereas words like ''a'', ''the'', ''this'', and ''that'' are traditionally said to belong to the ' category of Determiners.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category .
- I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
