BELL-SHAPED CURVE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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)

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