WordNet
n. a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution [syn: normal curve, Gaussian curve, Gaussian shape]
Usage examples of "bell-shaped curve".
Her hair was a pale, bell-shaped curve, combed straight back from her face in the classic style and just long enough to bounce on her shoulders.
Waterhouse slashes an abscissa and an ordinate onto the board, then sweeps out a bell-shaped curve.
The amount of blood in a chest after an aortic rupture has to be defined by a bell-shaped curve.
Even at a distance I recognized most of them: Liz was there, whose nylons swished when she crossed her legs, and Justin Moore, engineered for flawless skin as well as brains, and others from the far end of the bell-shaped curve.
On the bell-shaped curve of happiness there are always a handful who grumble at paradise.
The children spread out in the normal bell-shaped curve, centered on IQ 125&mdash.
This sort of thing is governed by the bell-shaped curve, and it would be surprising if magic talent weren’.
But a woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.
All he is, I am afraid, is a bell-shaped curve with ambitions, the median made flesh—.