BELL

'Bell' may refer to:

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Devices that produce sound

In communication

In business

Places

In biology

In mathematics

Other

See also

Devices that produce sound

★ Bell (instrument), a simple sound-making device

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★ Altar bell, a bell rung during the Catholic Mass

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★ Bell (school), a bell that signals transitions during a school day

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★ Bell cymbal, a small cymbal. The 'bell' is also the center, rounded part of a cymbal.

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★ Bell tree, instrument made of nested bells

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★ Bermuda carriage bell, used in vehicles as a warning to pedestrians

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★ Carillon, an instrument which utilizes bells, normally housed in a bell tower, and played from a keyboard

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★ Chime (bell instrument), similar to a carillon, but with fewer bells

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★ Church bell, a bell hanging in a church tower

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★ Electric bell, such as a doorbell or buzzer

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★ Handbell, a handheld bell, rung singly (such as a school bell) or in tuned sets played by a bell choir

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★ Jingle bell, a spherical bell that produces a distinct "jingle" sound

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★ Last call bell, a bell that signals the closing of a bar

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★ Mark tree, a set of small hanging chimes, sometimes mislabeled as a wind chime

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★ Orchestra bell, better known as Glockenspiel

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★ Ship's bells, bells which mark time on a ship

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★ Slave bell, used to regulate slavery

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★ Tubular bell, used in tuned sets as in a longcase clock, orchestral chime, organ, or tower

★ Bell (wind), the round, flared opening of a wind instrument opposite the mouthpiece

★ Bell character, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal

★ Bell effect, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio

★ Bell unit, measure of the ratio between two quantities

In communication

★ Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

★ Bell Centennial, a 1978 typeface developed for use in phone books

★ Bell Gothic, a 1938 typeface developed for use in phone books

★ Bell Labs, a research & development laboratory

★ Bell Operating Company, one of the local telephone companies owned by AT&T prior to 1984.

★ Bell System, North America's telephone system from the 1880s to the 1980s

★ Regional Bell Operating Company, sometimes known as "Baby Bells"

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★ AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest, Bell Telephone Companies, formerly known by names such as New Jersey Bell, Illinois Bell, etc.

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★ Cincinnati Bell

★ The Bell Telephone Hour, a television show

★ Bell Canada, one of the major Canadian telecommunications companies, including subsidiaries Bell Aliant, Bell Nordiq, Télébec, NorthernTel, Bell Sympatico, Bell Mobility, and Bell ExpressVu

★ Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel.
The word "bell" also can mean a signal from a engine order telegraph on a ship or submarine.

In business

★ Bell Advertising Service, a recruitment advertising agency

★ Bell & Howell, a camera and film company

★ Bell Aircraft Corporation, later Bell Helicopter Textron

★ Bell Equipment, a giant South African heavy industrial machine company based in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal with dealers abroad

★ Bell Helicopter Textron

★ Bell Piano and Organ Company, a piano maker in Guelph, Canada

★ Bell Pottinger Group, public relations, corporate responsibility and design

★ Bell Records, one of four record labels

★ Bell Shakespeare Company, Australian theatre company

★ Bell Sports Inc., a maker of helmets

★ Bell's Stores, convenience stores located in north east of England

★ The Bell Tea Company, New Zealand tea packer

★ Packard Bell, a defense contractor and manufacturer of consumer electronics

★ Taco Bell, a fast food company

Places

★ Bell, California

★ Bell, Florida

★ Bell, New South Wales, Australia.

★ Bell, Queensland

★ Bell, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

★ Bell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

★ Bell Acres, Pennsylvania

★ Bell Buckle, Tennessee

★ Bell Center, Wisconsin

★ Bell City, Missouri

★ Bells Corners, Ontario

★ Bell County, Kentucky

★ Bell County, Texas

★ Bell Gardens, California

★ Bell Hill, Washington

★ Bell Island

★ Bell Park, Victoria

★ Bell Township, Pennsylvania

★ Bells Beach, an internationally famous surf beach in Victoria, Australia

★ Bellville

★ Belles, Dominica (named after British commissioner Sir Hesketh Bell)

★ Bell Centre, a stadium in Montreal

★ Bell High School, one of several schools

★ Bell railway station, Melbourne, railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

★ Bell railway station, New South Wales

In biology

★ Bell Miner, colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia

★ Bell pepper, Cultivar Group of the species Capsicum annuum

★ Bellbird, several kinds of bird in various regions of the world that are noted for their far-carrying bell-like call

★ Diving bell spider, spider which lives entirely under water

★ Bell, the umbrella-shaped, non-stinging part of medusas in jellyfish

★ Bell, the corolla of a flower

In mathematics

★ Bell curve, illustrates ''normal distribution'' in statistics

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★ Bell curve grading, a use of the bell curve in comparing student achievement and converting percent and percentile grades to letter grades

★ Bell number, the number of partitions of a set with n members

★ Bell's theorem, the most famous legacy of the late John Bell

Other

★ Bell housing, part of an automotive transmission

★ Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water

★ USS Bell, one of two ships in the United States Navy

★ Bell (architecture), the part of the capital of a column between the abacus and neck molding; especially, the nearly bell-shaped naked core assumed to exist within the leafage of a Corinthian capital

★ Bell (crater), a crater on Earth's moon

★ Bell (fictional currency), a fictional currency in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series of video games

★ "Bells" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom ''Blackadder II''

★ Bell barrow, a burial mound

★ Bell beaker, prehistoric pottery

★ Bell bottoms, a style of trousers

★ Bell lineage, a lineage or clan of the Duala people of Cameroon

★ Bell pit, a type of coal mine

★ Saved by the Bell, popular American teen sitcom that is known under varying titles

★ The Bell, a supposed anti-gravity experiment by Nazi scientists

★ The Liberty Bell, American bell of great historic significance

★ Bell (Monotype), a 1788 serif typeface

★ "Bell", a song by Avail from their 2000 album ''One Wrench''

★ Bell end, a British slang term for the Glans penis.

See also

★ Bel

★ Bell (surname)

★ Belle

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★ Bryce Bell

★ The Bells

★ the Bells meteorite of 1961, which fell in Texas, United States (see Meteorite falls)

★ Bell House