What is the opposite of a funnel?
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For starters, an hour glass seems to come to mind.
I’m thinking a seed or fertilizer spreader. Or a shower head.
First, a funnel is an object that narrows a fluid/group into a smaller stream.
A meat grinder seems like a funnel to me, not an anti-funnel.
An Internet router takes one Internet connection/IP address and directs traffic to share that connection to your computers, phones, tablets, TVs, etc.
To the outside world, you have one connection.
The router “routes” the connections – Phone A is Googling, Computer B is watching Youtube, iPad C is on Wikipedia, etc…
Digital information aside now…
a funnel used in the opposite direction.
No, I argue, If I pour oil, for instance, into the narrow end of a funnel using an identical funnel, it will have no effect
A satellite dish (and any parabolic reflector like a solar oven) is like a funnel. It focuses the signal from the big dish onto one point, the receiver.
The opposite of funnel would be disperser
@Strauss That was the logic behind my suggestions.
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if you use the funnel in a low pressure, high temperature environment, the oil will vaporise. It will totally work.
if you use the funnel in a low pressure, high temperature environment, the oil will vaporise. It will totally work.
Is that a carburetor?
more like a rocket engine.
an upside-down funnel.
Funnels are wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
An upside-down funnel is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.
A shower head. – Oh, @Janbb got it already.
An atomizer
A sprinkler
A centrifuge
A dryer
^^@LostInParadise A dryer? Please explain.
A dryer removes liquid concentrated in clothing and disperses it. This is especially apparent in an electric clothes dryer, which uses a combination of heat and centrifugal force to remove the water.
A nozzle.
Rocket motor nozzles are good examples.
A megaphone is the opposite of a funnel, but only for sound. Don’t know if there is a general term in English for what you are looking for. Strauss’s disperser seems to come closest, at least in terms of functionality.
A river delta.
But physical objects don’t actually have opposites. It would have to be a function or principle or quality that has an opposite. So what we’re really talking about is the opposite of a narrowing channel, right?
A filter is in one way the opposite of a funnel but in another way the same. It removes a material from a source but concentrates it somewhere else.
An upside down funnel. It’s still a funnel.
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