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Bell may refer to:

Contents 1 Devices that produce noise 2 Communication 3 Places 4 Biology 5 Mathematics 6 People 7 Other 8 See also

[edit] Devices that produce noise

• Bell (instrument), a simple sound-making device, including:
  • Altar bell, a bell rung during the Catholic Mass.
  • Bell (school), a bell that signals transitions during a school day.
  • Bermuda carriage bell, used in vehicles as a warning to pedestrians
  • Church bell, a bell hanging in a church tower
  • Electric bell, such as a doorbell or buzzer
  • Handbell, a handheld bell, rung singly (such as a school bell) or in tuned sets played by a bell choir
  • Jingle bell, a spherical bell that produces a distinct "jingle" sound
  • Last call bell, a bell that signals the closing of a bar
  • Ship's bells, bells which mark time on a ship
  • Slave bell, used to regulate slavery
  • Tubular bell, used in tuned sets as in a longcase clock, orchestral chime, organ, or tower

Also:

• Bell character, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal.
• Bell effect, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio.
• Bell unit (bel), measure of the ratio between two quantities.
• Bell (wind), the round, flared opening of a wind instrument opposite the mouthpiece.
• Bell cymbal, a small cymbal. The bell is also the center, rounded part of a cymbal.
• Bell tree, instrument made of nested bells
• Carillon, an instrument which utilizes bells, normally housed in a bell tower, and played from a keyboard
• Chime (bell instrument), similar to a carillon, but with fewer bells
• Mark tree, a set of small hanging chimes, sometimes mislabeled as a wind chime
• Orchestra bell, better known as Glockenspiel

[edit] Communication

• 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"
• Bell Canada, one of the major Canadian telecommunications companies, or one of its subsidiaries
• Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel.
• The Bell Telephone Hour, a television show

The word "bell" also can mean a signal from a engine order telegraph on a ship or submarine.

[edit] Places

Australia

• Bell, New South Wales
• Bell, Queensland
• Bell Park, Victoria
• Bell railway station, Melbourne, railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Bell railway station, New South Wales

Canada

• Bell Centre, a stadium in Montreal
• Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Bell Peninsula, Nunavut

Germany

• Bell, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Bell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

United States

• Bell, California
• Bell, Florida
• Bell Acres, Pennsylvania
• Bell Buckle, Tennessee
• Bell Center, Wisconsin
• Bell City, Missouri
• Bell County, Kentucky
• Bell County, Texas
• Bell Gardens, California
• Bell Hill, Washington
• Bell Township, Pennsylvania

See also

• Bell High School (disambiguation)
• Bellville (disambiguation)

[edit] 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

[edit] Mathematics

• Bell curve, illustrates normal distribution in statistics.
  • 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, a thought experiment that suggests a limit to quantum mechanics.
• Bell test experiments, the basis of Bell's theorem.

[edit] People

For people having surname Bell see Bell (surname).

[edit] Other

• Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School, a public school in Chicago, Illinois.
• 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, a Canadian piano maker
• Bell (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
• Bell (fictional currency), a fictional currency in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series of video games
• Bell (Monotype), a 1788 serif typeface
• Bell barrow, a burial mound
• Bell beaker, prehistoric pottery
• Bell bottoms, a style of trousers
• "Bell end", a British slang term for the glans penis
• Bell Helicopter, an American helicopter manufacturer
• Bell housing, part of an automotive transmission
• Bell lineage, a lineage or clan of the Duala people of Cameroon
• Bell pit, a type of coal mine
• Bell Records
• Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water
• The Liberty Bell, American bell of great historic significance
• USS Bell, either of two ships in the United States Navy
• The Bell (novel), by Iris Murdoch
• Bell tailslide, an aerobatic maneuver
• Die Glocke, a possibly fictional Nazi anti-gravity technology

[edit] See also

• Bells
• Bel
• Bell House
• Bell (surname)
• Belle

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