bell-shaped curve
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curve
noun[C]
uk/kɜːv/us/kɝːv/
a line that bends continuously and has no ...
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One of these sounds consists of ten sinusoidal components separated by one octave with amplitudes controlled by a constant spectral envelope, abell-shapedcurve.
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Even within this set, thebell-shapedcurvehas been uncovered for a few pollutants only.
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The dormant individuals were made to emerge as active adults during a two-month period, at a daily rate that followed abell-shapedcurve.
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For each type, this author found abell-shapedcurve.
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First, let us assume that the distribution of citizen preferences is reasonably approximated by a normal,bell-shapedcurve.
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The solid line is a fit to the data derived from an equation for abell-shapedcurve.
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From a developmental perspective, normality could be viewed as "average" and represented by a bell-shapedcurveshowing a continuous distribution of individual scores on a given characteristic.
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Saccadic velocity, plotted against time, is abell-shapedcurve.
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When the values are plotted, abell-shapedcurveis obtained.
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The degree of its resemblance to thebell-shapedcurvecan be quantified as follows.
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Thebell-shapedcurvewas not random, he concluded.
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He theorized that extraction rate plotted versus time would show abell-shapedcurve, declining as rapidly as it had risen.
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We again find bell-shaped curves compensating for each other - but they have a different meaning here.
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There are other reasons for caution in interpreting such bell-shaped curves.
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Second, the bell-shaped curves have been uncovered for emissions of pollutants, not generally for resource stocks.
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Third, the bell-shaped curves, as they have been estimated, say nothing about the system-wide consequences of reductions in emission.
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In typical applications, the window functions used are non-negative smooth bell-shaped curves, though rectangle, triangle, and other functions can be used.
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