bell shape
Wide at bottom
A bell shape is the rounded, flared silhouette of a bell—wide at the bottom, narrowing toward the top.
The term describes anything with this profile: a bell-shaped curve in statistics (the normal distribution), a bell-shaped sleeve in fashion, or bell-shaped flowers like lilies of the valley.
The data formed a perfect bell shape.
- curveSmooth, angleless line
- normal distributionBell-shaped probability curve
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- tulipBulbous spring flower
- flareSudden bright burst
distribution · chime · ring · petal · skirt · trumpet · hood · canopy · blossom · parabola · umbrella · mushroom · goblet · normal · peak · symmetry · bulge · swell
- flower formstubular, rosette, double flower, rotate, stellate
- dress stylesA-line, sheath dress, sheath, shift, shift dress
- Classical columnsDoric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Ionic order
- rotational solidssphere, cone, cylinder, torus, ellipsoid
- woodwind partskeys, pads, reeds, body, barrel