BELL-SHAPED CURVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bell-shaped curve mean? 

• BELL-SHAPED CURVE (noun)
  The noun BELL-SHAPED CURVE has 1 sense:

1. a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution

  Familiarity information: BELL-SHAPED CURVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELL-SHAPED CURVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

bell-shaped curve; Gaussian curve; Gaussian shape; normal curve

Hypernyms ("bell-shaped curve" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)