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NORMAL CURVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution
Synonyms:
bell-shaped curve; Gaussian curve; Gaussian shape; normal curve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("normal curve" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)