Funnel (disambiguation)
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The word funnel has several meanings, besides being a conical device for channelling fluids or other substances into narrow openings:
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[edit] Locations
- A major series of interchanges in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, located near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and is locally referred to as the Funnel.
[edit] Science
[edit] Biology
- The siphon of cephalopods.
[edit] Economics
- A funnel chart is a type of chart.
[edit] Meteorology
- A funnel cloud (aloft) is a quickly rotating column of air usually below a cumulonimbus cloud, but more generally under a cumiliform cloud that does not produce fast winds at the surface.
- The visible part of a tornado (ignoring a debris cloud), or as an all inclusive term including funnel cloud aloft, is known as a condensation funnel.
[edit] Technologies
[edit] Computing
- A funnel is a synchronization primitive used in concurrent computing.
- Funnel, a programming language combining ideas from functional programming and Petri nets.
[edit] Other uses
- A funnel is a fictional remote weapon in Anime Gundam series.
- Funnel cake is a fried batter desert.
- The chimney of a ship is often called a funnel.
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