Urchin or urcheon is the
Middle English term for "
hedgehog". It may refer to:
Common meanings
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Street children
Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids or street child; the definition of street children is contested, but many practitioners and policym ...
, homeless children
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Sea urchin
Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin live on the seabed of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of ...
s, spiny sea creatures
Arts and entertainment
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Urchin (band)
Urchin (also known as Evil Ways) were an English hard rock band.
Early years
The band was formed in 1972 by childhood friends Dave Murray and Adrian Smith. Along with bassist John Hoye and various drummers, they entered a few local talent co ...
, a band led by Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden
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''Urchin'' (album), a 1998 album by Inga Liljeström
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''Urchin'' (film), a 2007 film about a homeless boy living underground, by John Harlacher
* Urchin, the squirrel protagonist in ''
The Mistmantle Chronicles
''The Mistmantle Chronicles'' is a series of children's novels by M. I. McAllister about anthropomorphic squirrels, hedgehogs, otters, and moles. The protagonist is a pale, honey-coloured Eurasian red squirrel
The red squirrel (''Sciuru ...
'' book series
* Urchin, an enemy in the 1990 video game ''
Super Mario World''
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Urchin (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a type of monster in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game
* "Urchin", a song by Arca from ''
Arca''
Other uses
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HMS ''Urchin'', five ships of the British Royal Navy
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Urchin Software Corporation
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand. Google launched the service in November 2005 after acquiring Urchin.
As o ...
, a US web analytics company owned by Google
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Urchin (software)
Urchin is a discontinued web statistics analysis program that was developed by Urchin Software Corporation. Urchin analyzed web server log file content and displayed the traffic information on that website based upon the log data. Sales of U ...
, a series of web analytics developed by the Urchin Software Corporation (now Google Analytics)
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Urchin (detonator)
A modulated neutron initiator is a neutron source capable of producing a burst of neutrons on activation. It is a crucial part of some nuclear weapons, as its role is to "kick-start" the chain reaction at the optimal moment when the configuration i ...
, code name for the device that triggered the detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs
* The Urchins, English
hooligan firm
Hooligan firms (also known as football firms) are groups that participate in football hooliganism in European countries. For groups in Latin America, see barra brava and torcida organizada.
Belgium
* Club Brugge – East Side
*RSC Anderlecht ...
associated with Liverpool F.C.
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Urchin Rock Urchin Rock () is a rock, over which the sea breaks, lying 2.3 nautical miles (4.3 km) west of the largest of the Berthelot Islands, off the west coast of Graham Land. First shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. So named by the United ...
, off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica
See also
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Sea Urchin (disambiguation)
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