All articles starting with F

Funk carioca

Funk carioca, also called baile funk or Brazilian funk, is Rio de Janeiro's electronic dance genre rooted in 1970s Black Rio soul parties, 1980s Miami bass, the tamborzão beat, DJ Marlboro's 1989 Funk Brasil, and the favela baile.

Funk D'Void

Funk D'Void is the alias of Lars Sandberg, a Scottish DJ and producer from Glasgow, now based in Barcelona, best known for the 2001 techno track 'Diabla'.

Funk melody

Funk melody is a romantic, melodic subgenre of funk carioca, built on the US freestyle sound, that dominated Rio's radio and television charts through the 1990s.

Funk ostentação

Funk ostentação is a subgenre of baile funk that emerged in São Paulo in the late 2000s and peaked in 2014, celebrating luxury and brands over funk rhythms.

Funk paulista

Funk paulista is the São Paulo variant of baile funk, developed from Rio's funk carioca with strands like mandelão and bruxaria and a street-party culture in São Paulo's peripheries.

Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1

Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, also Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1, is Calvin Harris's fifth studio album (Columbia, June 30, 2017): 10 tracks, no Harris vocals, 1980s boogie and funk instead of EDM, and it debuted at No. 2 in the UK and US.

Funkadelic

Funkadelic, also called the P-Funk rock wing of Parliament-Funkadelic, is George Clinton's 1968 Plainfield, New Jersey funk-rock band, formed after the Parliaments naming dispute, known for Maggot Brain (1971), One Nation Under a Groove (1978), and 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Funke Akindele

Funke Akindele (born 1977, Ikorodu, Lagos) is a Nigerian actress, director, and producer known as Jenifa, creator of Jenifa's Diary and the highest-grossing Nollywood director with over ₦7.6 billion in box-office earnings.

Fünke family

Fünke family: the fictional Arrested Development branch of the Bluths, Lindsay Bluth Fünke, Tobias Fünke, and daughter Maeby, plus Surely and Murphy Brown Fünke.

Oct 21, 2026

Funkenschlag

Funkenschlag, also known as Power Grid's first edition, is Friedemann Friese's 2001 2F-Spiele economic board game for 2-6 players: crayon-drawn power networks, power plant auctions, and a shifting resource market.

Funkmaster Flex

Funkmaster Flex (Aston George Taylor Jr., born 1968, Bronx) is an American hip-hop DJ and Hot 97 radio host since 1992, creator of the gold-selling 60 Minutes of Funk mixtape series and The Tunnel album.

Funko

Funko (Nasdaq: FNKO) is an American pop culture collectibles company founded in 1998 by Mike Becker in Snohomish, Washington, best known for its Pop! Vinyl figures introduced in 2010; over one billion sold, brands include Pop!, Loungefly and Mondo.

Funko Fusion

Funko Fusion is a 2024 action-adventure game by 10:10 Games, ex-TT Games developers, mashing over 20 licensed franchises into Funko Pop! form. Launched without co-op; mixed reviews, heavy DLC, later deep discounts.

Funko Pop!

Funko Pop! is a line of stylized vinyl collectible figures produced by Funko, Inc. of Everett, Washington, recognizable by oversized square heads, large round black eyes, and small bodies.

Funky (film)

Funky (ఫంకీ) is a 2026 Telugu comedy film directed by Anudeep KV, starring Vishwak Sen and Kayadu Lohar, about a director romancing a producer's daughter; released 13 February 2026, a box office flop, later on Netflix.

Funky Cold Medina

Funky Cold Medina: 1989 Tone-Loc hip-hop single on Delicious Vinyl, written by Young MC with Matt Dike and Michael Ross; peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the rapper's second platinum hit from Loc-ed After Dark.

Funky Kato

Funky Kato (ファンキー加藤) is a Japanese singer from Hachiōji, Tokyo, who led FUNKY MONKEY BABYS until 2013 and has since worked as a solo artist.

Funky Winkerbean

Funky Winkerbean, also known as Funky, was Tom Batiuk's newspaper comic strip about Westview High School, running March 27, 1972 to December 31, 2022, famous for its 1992 time jump and the Lisa Moore breast-cancer storyline that made Batiuk a 2008 Pulitzer finalist.

Funkytown

Funkytown is the 1980 disco-synth-pop song by Lipps, Inc., written by Steven Greenberg and sung by Cynthia Johnson; four weeks at Billboard #1, UK #2, famously covered by Pseudo Echo.

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978), born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas, Nigerian teacher, nationalist, and feminist who led the Abeokuta Women's Union tax protests, forced the Alake's abdication, and founded the Nigerian Women's Union.

Funnel

A funnel, in the chemistry laboratory, is a cone-shaped piece of glass or plastic labware for transferring liquids or powders and for filtering, with special types such as Büchner and separatory funnels.

Funnel approach

The funnel approach is a questioning technique in which interviews or questionnaires begin with broad, open-ended questions and progress to narrow, specific ones; its inverse is the inverted funnel.

Funnel control

Funnel control is a model-free adaptive control method introduced in 2002 by Ilchmann, Ryan, and Sangwin that keeps tracking error within a prescribed performance funnel.

Oct 22, 2026

Funnel metadynamics

Funnel metadynamics (FM) is an enhanced-sampling molecular dynamics method, introduced by Limongelli, Bonomi, and Parrinello in 2013, that computes protein-ligand binding free energies using a funnel-shaped restraint.

Sep 29, 2026

Funnel plot

A funnel plot is a scatter plot of effect estimates against study size or precision in a meta-analysis, used to display small-study effects and assess publication bias.

Funnel-based motion planning

Funnel-based motion planning is a robot motion planning approach that pairs maneuvers with feedback controllers and builds plans by chaining funnels, invariant sets guaranteeing safety under bounded disturbances.

Funnelbeaker culture

The Funnelbeaker culture (Trichterbecher, TRB) was a Neolithic culture of northern Central Europe and southern Scandinavia, from about 4000 to 2200 BCE, known for its megalithic tombs.

Funny Car

Funny Car: NHRA professional drag racing class of short-wheelbase, carbon-fiber-bodied cars running the same supercharged 500-cid nitro Hemi as Top Fuel, over 11,000 hp, 3.8s at 330+ mph; official since the 1966 World Finals.

Funny Face

Funny Face (1957) is a Stanley Donen Paramount musical starring Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, and Kay Thompson, using Gershwin songs from the 1927 stage show, based on Leonard Gershe's unproduced play Wedding Day inspired by photographer Richard Avedon, with four Oscar nominations.