Usually means: Symmetrical, rounded, tapering at ends.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bell-shaped: Merriam-Webster
  2. bell-shaped, bell-shaped: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bell-shaped: Vocabulary.com
  4. bell-shaped: Wordnik
  5. bell-shaped: Wiktionary
  6. Bell-shaped, bell-shaped: Dictionary.com
  7. Bell-shaped: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. bell-shaped: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. bell-shaped: Rhymezone
  10. Bell-shaped: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. bell-shaped: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. bell-shaped: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bell-shaped: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bell-shaped: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bell-shaped: Encyclopedia

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  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bell-shaped)

▸ adjective:  Having a shape or cross-section like the cross-section of a bell.

Similar:
campanular, pear-shaped, campanulate, hourglass-shaped, terete, ampullate, campanulated, round, bulboid, corniform, more...

Opposite:
asymmetric, irregular, non-symmetrical

Types:
conical, pyramidal, spherical, triangular, cylindrical, more...

Phrases:
bell-shaped curve, more...

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Similar:
campanular, pear-shaped, campanulate, hourglass-shaped, terete, ampullate, campanulated, round, bulboid, corniform, more...

Opposite:
asymmetric, irregular, non-symmetrical

Types:
conical, pyramidal, spherical, triangular, cylindrical, more...

Phrases:
bell-shaped curve, more...



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