Churn

Churn may refer to:

• Butter churn, a device used for churning butter
• Churning (butter), the process of creating butter out of milk or cream
• Churn drill, a large, older drilling machine that bores large diameter holes in the ground

People and places

• Chuck Churn (born 1930), Major League Baseball pitcher from 1957 to 1959
• River Churn, a river running through Gloucestershire
• Churn Creek, a tributary of the Fraser River in British Columbia
• Churn Creek Protected Area, the provincial park surrounding the Churn Creek
• Devils Churn, a narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Lincoln County, Oregon
• Churn station, a defunct rail platform on the former Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway of England

Music

• Churn (Shihad album), 1993
• Churn (Seven Mary Three album), 1994

Business

• Product churning, a business practice whereby more of the product is sold than is beneficial to the consumer
• Churning (stock trade), the excessive buying and selling of a client's stocks by a trader to generate large commission fees
• Churn rate, the average number of customers that leave a subscription service during a year

Technology

• Churning (cipher), an encryption function used in the ITU G.983.1 standard.