Bell may refer to: [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
- Bell plate a heavy, flat, and rectangular steel slab suspended by a rope used in orchestral music
- 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 bell, 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
- Bel (acoustics) (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] Businesses & Companies - Bell Labs, a research & development laboratory
- Regional Bell Operating Company, one of the local telephone companies owned by AT&T prior to 1984
- 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-Lucent
- Bell Aircraft, an American aircraft manufacturer
- Bell Helicopter, an American helicopter manufacturer
- Bell Sports Inc., a bicycle helmet manufacturer
- Bell Records, an American record label
[edit] Communication The word "bell" also can mean a signal from a engine order telegraph on a ship or submarine. [edit] Places - Australia
- Canada
- 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 Station, California
- Bell Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)
- Alexander Graham Bell School, a public school in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bell (METRORail station), station on Bell Street in Houston, Texas, United States
- See also
[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
[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). - Bell (architecture), the part of the capital (architecture) 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 (cyclecar), 1920s vehicle
- 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
- Beaker culture or Bell-Beaker culture, prehistoric pottery
- Bell-bottoms, a style of trousers
- "Bell end", a British slang term for the glans penis
- 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
- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water
- Liberty Bell, American bell of great historic significance
- USS Bell, either of two ships in the United States Navy
- The Bell (novel), a novel by Iris Murdoch
- Bell tailslide, an aerobatic maneuver
- Die Glocke, a possibly fictional Nazi anti-gravity technology
- The Bells (Old Kingdom Series), the Bells which feature prominently in the series by Garth Nix
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