Bell (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A bell is a percussion instrument, usually cup-shaped.
Bell may also refer to:
Sound and music
[edit]- Bell (wind instrument), a part of a wind instrument
- Bell cymbal, a type of cymbal, tending to be thick and uniformly so, and small
- Bell effect, a musical technique
- Cymbal bell, the most central part of a cymbal
Signals
[edit]- Bell, a signal from an engine order telegraph, a communications device used on a ship or submarine
- Alarm bell, used to alert people of a fire or burglary detected or, as part of a traditional alarm clock, to awaken or remind
- Church bell, indicating when to go to church
- Doorbell, a signaling device to alert residents to visitors
- Division bell, used in a parliament to call members to a vote
- Last call bell, a signal that a bar is closing soon
- School bell, a signal used for transitions during a school day
- Ship's bell, a signal for marking time on a ship
People
[edit]- Bell (surname), a list of people with the surname Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), inventor of the telephone
- John Stewart Bell (1928–1990), originator of Bell's theorem in quantum physics
- bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952–2021), American author, academic, and activist
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Bell, New South Wales
- Bell, Queensland, a town in the Western Downs Region
Canada
[edit]Germany
[edit]- Bell, Mayen-Koblenz, Germany, a municipality
- Bell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Germany, a municipality
United States
[edit]- Bell, California
- Bell, Florida
- Bell, Illinois
- Bell, Oklahoma
- Bell, Wisconsin
- Bell Canyon, California
- Bell City, Missouri
- Bell County, Kentucky
- Bell County, Texas
- Bell Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)
Other places
[edit]- Bell (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Bell, South Africa
- Bell Creek (disambiguation)
Businesses
[edit]Telecommunications
[edit]- Bell Canada, a Canadian telecommunications company
- Bell Labs, a research & development organization founded by AT&T, now owned by Nokia
- Bell System, the organization that provided telephone service in the United States until 1984
- Bell Telephone Company, founded in 1877 by the family of Alexander Graham Bell
Other businesses
[edit]- Bell Aircraft, a former American aircraft manufacturer
- Bell Textron, formerly Bell Helicopter
- Bell ID, a Dutch software company
- Bell Inn, Enfield, London, England
- Bell Records, a record label
- Bell Sports, a helmet manufacturer
- Bell (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
- Bell's Brewery, based in Michigan, U.S.
- Bell's whisky, a brand of Scotch
Science and technology
[edit]- Bell, the body of a jellyfish
- Bell character, in computing, a device control code
- Bell number, in mathematics
- Bell polynomials, in mathematics
- Bell state, in quantum information science
- Diving bell, a cable-suspended underwater airtight chamber
Transportation
[edit]- Bell station (disambiguation)
- SS Empire Bell, a ship
- USS Bell, the name of two U.S. Navy ships
- Bell (cyclecar), made in 1920
- Bell maneuver, a version of the tailslide in aerobatics
Other uses
[edit]- Bell (fictional currency), in the game Animal Crossing
- Bell (typeface)
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Bell
- All pages with titles containing Bell
- Bel (disambiguation)
- Bell High School (disambiguation)
- Bell House (disambiguation)
- Bell Lake (disambiguation)
- Bell pepper
- Bell, Book & Candle (disambiguation)
- Belle (disambiguation)
- Bells (disambiguation)
- The Bell (disambiguation)
- The Bells (disambiguation)
- Justice Bell (disambiguation)
- Old Bell (disambiguation)
- Glockenspiel (disambiguation)
- Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes