gaussian shape

1. 1.

   a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution

   Synonymsnormal curvebell-shaped curveGaussian curve

   Broadercurve

   statistics

Questions about gaussian shape

What does gaussian shape mean?

gaussian shape means "a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution".

What is another word for gaussian shape?

Close synonyms include normal curve, bell-shaped curve, Gaussian curve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gaussian shape a common word?

gaussian shape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.