Niche and Range

Niche

Niche noun - The place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found.

Usage example: the platypus's niche is the waters of eastern Australia and Tasmania

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Range and niche are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Range" instead a noun "Niche".

Nearby Word: niched

Range noun - The place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found.

Usage example: the American robin's winter range has steadily extended farther and farther north

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Niche and range are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Niche" instead a noun "Range".

Nearby Words: ranged, rangy, ranging

good	good niche	good range
similar	similar niche	similar range
normal	normal niche	normal range
specific	specific niche	specific range
Other adjectives: certain, small, powerful, real, big, extreme, great, narrow, new, less, different, shorter.

In many cases, the shotgun has its own niche in a game's Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors, outclassing all other weapons at point-blank range but losing everywhere else.

Source: Short-Range Shotgun
The Kobracon starts out as a niche weapon for long range gunfights that can often be easily circumvented through stealth.

Source: Video Game / Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
However, there is a budding renaissance of Cool Airships being built and tested for niche applications, for example replacing cargo helicopters at ten times the range and a tenth the cost.

Source: Cool Airship

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