The inverted bell is a metaphorical name for geometric shape that resembles a bell upside down.
In architecture, the term is applied, e.g., to describe the shape of the capitals of Corinthian columns.
The inverted bell is used in shape classification in pottery, often featured in archaeology as well as in modern times.
The inverted bell curve is sometimes called well curve.
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A bell
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Bell-mouth spillway at Llyn Celyn
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Inverted-bell beakers from the Beaker culture
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Vorticella protozoa
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Bell krater
Famous quotes containing the words inverted and/or bell:
“Can they never tell
What is dragging them back, and how it will end? Not at night?
Not when the strangers come? Never, throughout
The whole hideous inverted childhood? Well,
We shall find out.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“You always strain tuh be de bell cow, never be de tail uh nothin’.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)