- Bell (instrument)
A bell is a simple sound-making device. The bell is a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped object, which resonates upon being struck...
, a simple sound-making device, including:
- Altar bell
In the Roman Catholic Church and in some churches of the Anglican Communion, an altar bell is a small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side of the altar...
, a bell rung during the Catholic Mass.
- Bell (school)
A bell is a signal in a school, either a real bell, a distributed ringer or a sound heard over the intercom that tells the students when it is time to go to class in the morning and when it is time to change classes during the day. Typically the first bell tells the students that it is time to...
, a bell that signals transitions during a school day.
- Bell plate
A bell plate is a percussion instrument that is a heavy, flat, and rectangular steel slab suspended by a rope. It may be struck with a variety of mallets or body parts ....
a heavy, flat, and rectangular steel slab suspended by a rope used in orchestral music
- Bermuda carriage bell
A Bermuda carriage bell is a bowl-sized bell with a pleasant tone. It is rung by means of a plunger button stemming from the center top of the bell...
, used in vehicles as a warning to pedestrians
- Church bell
A church bell is a bell which is rung in a church either to signify the hour or the time for worshippers to go to church, perhaps to attend a wedding, funeral, or other service...
, a bell hanging in a church tower
- Electric bell
An electric bell is a mechanical bell that functions by means of an electromagnet....
, such as a doorbell or buzzer
- Handbell
A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle — traditionally made of leather, but often now made of plastic — and moves the wrist to make the hinged clapper inside the bell strike...
, a handheld bell, rung singly (such as a school bell) or in tuned sets played by a bell choir
- Jingle bell
thumb|250px|Sleigh bells as a musical instrument.A jingle bell is a type of bell which produces a distinctive 'jingle' sound, especially in large numbers. They find use in many areas as a percussion instrument, including the classic sleigh bell sound and morris dancing...
, a spherical bell that produces a distinct "jingle" sound
- Last call bell, a bell that signals the closing of a bar
- Ship's bell, bells which mark time on a ship
- Slave bell
The Slave Bell was used to punctuate the day at the Cape Colony during the days when slavery was still practised there. In Cuba the slave bell was rung before the slaves who had reported for duty were freed....
, used to regulate slavery
- Tubular bell
Tubular bells are musical instruments in the percussion family. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm in diameter, tuned by altering its length. They range from c1 to f2 . Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument...
, used in tuned sets as in a longcase clock, orchestral chime, organ, or tower
Also:
- Bell character
A bell code is a device control code originally sent to ring a small electromechanical bell on tickers and other teleprinters and teletypewriters to alert operators at the other end of the line, often of an incoming message...
, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal.
- Bell effect
The bell effect, also known colloquially as "bells", is a technique used in musical arrangement in which single notes of a chord are played in sequence by different instruments which sustain their individual notes to allow the chord to be heard. It is, in effect, an arpeggio played by several...
, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio.
- Bel (acoustics) (bel), measure of the ratio between two quantities.
- Bell (wind), the round, flared opening of a wind instrument opposite the mouthpiece.
- Bell cymbal
A bell cymbal or bell splash cymbal is a small, very thick cymbal with little if any taper, used as an effects cymbal in a drum kit. The sound produced when striking the bell cymbal with a drumstick is a distinctive high-pitched ping sound with a long sustain...
, a small cymbal.
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Devices that produce noise
- Bell (instrument)
A bell is a simple sound-making device. The bell is a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped object, which resonates upon being struck...
, a simple sound-making device, including:
- Altar bell
In the Roman Catholic Church and in some churches of the Anglican Communion, an altar bell is a small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side of the altar...
, a bell rung during the Catholic Mass.
- Bell (school)
A bell is a signal in a school, either a real bell, a distributed ringer or a sound heard over the intercom that tells the students when it is time to go to class in the morning and when it is time to change classes during the day. Typically the first bell tells the students that it is time to...
, a bell that signals transitions during a school day.
- Bell plate
A bell plate is a percussion instrument that is a heavy, flat, and rectangular steel slab suspended by a rope. It may be struck with a variety of mallets or body parts ....
a heavy, flat, and rectangular steel slab suspended by a rope used in orchestral music
- Bermuda carriage bell
A Bermuda carriage bell is a bowl-sized bell with a pleasant tone. It is rung by means of a plunger button stemming from the center top of the bell...
, used in vehicles as a warning to pedestrians
- Church bell
A church bell is a bell which is rung in a church either to signify the hour or the time for worshippers to go to church, perhaps to attend a wedding, funeral, or other service...
, a bell hanging in a church tower
- Electric bell
An electric bell is a mechanical bell that functions by means of an electromagnet....
, such as a doorbell or buzzer
- Handbell
A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle — traditionally made of leather, but often now made of plastic — and moves the wrist to make the hinged clapper inside the bell strike...
, a handheld bell, rung singly (such as a school bell) or in tuned sets played by a bell choir
- Jingle bell
thumb|250px|Sleigh bells as a musical instrument.A jingle bell is a type of bell which produces a distinctive 'jingle' sound, especially in large numbers. They find use in many areas as a percussion instrument, including the classic sleigh bell sound and morris dancing...
, a spherical bell that produces a distinct "jingle" sound
- Last call bell, a bell that signals the closing of a bar
- Ship's bell, bells which mark time on a ship
- Slave bell
The Slave Bell was used to punctuate the day at the Cape Colony during the days when slavery was still practised there. In Cuba the slave bell was rung before the slaves who had reported for duty were freed....
, used to regulate slavery
- Tubular bell
Tubular bells are musical instruments in the percussion family. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm in diameter, tuned by altering its length. They range from c1 to f2 . Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument...
, used in tuned sets as in a longcase clock, orchestral chime, organ, or tower
Also:
- Bell character
A bell code is a device control code originally sent to ring a small electromechanical bell on tickers and other teleprinters and teletypewriters to alert operators at the other end of the line, often of an incoming message...
, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal.
- Bell effect
The bell effect, also known colloquially as "bells", is a technique used in musical arrangement in which single notes of a chord are played in sequence by different instruments which sustain their individual notes to allow the chord to be heard. It is, in effect, an arpeggio played by several...
, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio.
- Bel (acoustics) (bel), measure of the ratio between two quantities.
- Bell (wind), the round, flared opening of a wind instrument opposite the mouthpiece.
- Bell cymbal
A bell cymbal or bell splash cymbal is a small, very thick cymbal with little if any taper, used as an effects cymbal in a drum kit. The sound produced when striking the bell cymbal with a drumstick is a distinctive high-pitched ping sound with a long sustain...
, a small cymbal. The bell is also the center, rounded part of a cymbal.
- Bell tree
A bell tree is a percussion instrument, consisting of vertically nested inverted metal bowls. The bowls, placed on a vertical rod, are arranged in order of pitch . The number of bowls can vary between approximately 14 and 28...
, instrument made of nested bells
- Carillon
A carillon is a musical instrument that is usually housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...
, an instrument which utilizes bells, normally housed in a bell tower, and played from a keyboard
- Chime (bell instrument)
A carillon-like instrument with fewer than 23 bells is called a chime.American chimes usually have one to one and a half diatonic octaves. Many chimes play an automated piece of music. Prior to 1900, chime bells typically lacked dynamic variation and the inner tuning required to permit the use of...
, similar to a carillon, but with fewer bells
- Mark tree
A mark tree is a percussion instrument used primarily for musical colour. It consists of many small chimes – typically cylinders of solid metal approximately 6 mm in diameter – of varying lengths mounted hanging from a bar...
, a set of small hanging chimes, sometimes mislabeled as a wind chime
- Orchestra bell, better known as Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel [German Glocken + spielen ] is a percussion instrument, composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal, thus making...
Businesses & Companies
- Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories is the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Murray Hill, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities...
, a research & development laboratory
- Regional Bell Operating Company
The Regional Bell Operating Companies are the result of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company -History:...
, one of the local telephone companies owned by AT&T prior to 1984.
- Regional Bell Operating Company
The Regional Bell Operating Companies are the result of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company -History:...
, sometimes known as "Baby Bells"
- Bell Canada
Bell Canada, commonly shortened to "Bell", is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern...
, one of the major Canadian telecommunications companies, or one of its subsidiaries
- Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data and video services...
.
- Bell Aircraft
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters...
, an American aircraft manufacturer
- Bell Helicopter, an American helicopter manufacturer
- Bell Sports Inc.
Bell Sports Inc., a division of Easton-Bell Sports, Inc., is a manufacturer of bicycle helmets. Easton-Bell also owns Bell Racing Company, which makes helmets for auto racing, and Bell Powersports, which makes motorcycle helmets. Easton-Bell Sports, Inc...
, a bicycle helmet manufacturer
- Bell Records
Bell Records was an American record label founded in 1952 by Arthur Shimkin in New York after the rights to the name were acquired from Benny Bell who used the Bell name to issue risque novelty records. A British branch was also active in the 1960s and 1970s...
, an American record label
Communication
- Bell Centennial
Bell Centennial is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter in the period 1975–1978. The typeface was commissioned by AT&T as a proprietary type to replace their then current directory typeface Bell Gothic on the occasion of AT&T's one hundredth anniversary...
, a 1978 typeface developed for use in phone books
- Bell Gothic, a 1938 typeface developed for use in phone books
- Bell System
The Bell System was the AT&T monopoly that provided telephone service in the United States from 1877 to 1984 when it was broken up into separate companies by a Federal mandate....
, North America's telephone system from the 1880s to the 1980s
- The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour, aka The Telephone Hour, is a long-run concert series which began April 29, 1940 on NBC radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958. Sponsored by Bell Telephone, it showcased the best in classical and Broadway music, reaching eight to nine million listeners each week. It...
, a television show
The word "bell" also can mean a signal from a
engine order telegraphAn engine order telegraph or E.O.T., often also chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed...
on a ship or submarine.
Places
Australia
- Bell, New South Wales
Bell is a small rural/residential village in the Blue Mountains with an elevation of approximately 1100 metres above sea level. Bell is approximately 125 km west of Sydney , Australia by road or 137 km by rail, some 20 km east of Lithgow and 10 km north of Mount Victoria. It is...
- Bell, Queensland
Bell is a picturesque village nestled in the western foothills of the Bunya Mountains of Queensland, Australia, about 40 kilometres north of Dalby. At the 2006 census, it had a population of 297....
- Bell Park, Victoria
Bell Park is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is located 3 km north-west of the Geelong city centre and is bordered to the north by the Ballarat rail line, to the east by Thompson Road, to the south by the Midland Highway and to the west by Anakie Road.- History :Bell...
- Bell railway station, Melbourne
Bell is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Preston, on the Epping railway line. Bell is in Metcard Zone
1 and is classed as a Premium Station.-Facilities:...
, railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Bell railway station, New South Wales
Bell railway station, originally called Mount Wilson, is a regional railway station on the Blue Mountains Line of the CityRail intercity network, serving the village of Mount Wilson in the Upper Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia...
Canada
- Bell Centre
The Bell Centre , formerly known as the Molson Centre , is a sports and entertainment complex in Montreal, Quebec. It has been the home of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens hockey team since March 16, 1996, when they hosted the New York Rangers...
, a stadium in Montreal
- Bell Island
Bell Island is an island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay.Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 km²...
, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Bell Peninsula
The Bell Peninsula is located on southeastern Southampton Island, in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is in close proximity to the small Inuit community of Coral Harbour. The southern shores make up the northern boundary of Hudson Bay. Foxe Basin is to the east. There are several large bays...
, Nunavut
Germany
- Bell, Mayen-Koblenz
Bell is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany....
, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Bell, Rhein-Hunsrück
Bell is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany....
, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
United States
- Bell, California
Bell is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 36,664 at the 2000 census.Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is situated north of South Gate...
- Bell, Florida
Bell is a town in Gilchrist County, Florida, United States. The population was 349 at the 2000 census. Gilchrist County holds two towns, Bell & Trenton. It is situated in the northern part of the county. The Middle/High School is home to approximately 750 students...
- Bell Acres, Pennsylvania
Bell Acres is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 1,382 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bell Acres is located at ....
- Bell Buckle, Tennessee
Bell Buckle is a town in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 391 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bell Buckle is located at ....
- Bell Center, Wisconsin
Bell Center is a village in Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 116 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bell Center is located at ....
- Bell City, Missouri
Bell City is a city in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States. The population was 461 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bell City is located at ....
- Bell County, Kentucky
Bell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1867. As of 2000, the population was 30,060. Its county seat is Pineville. The county is named for Joshua Fry Bell....
- Bell County, Texas
Bell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2000, the population was 237,974 . Its county seat is Belton...
- Bell Gardens, California
Bell Gardens is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 44,054 at the 2000 census.Bell Gardens is notable for being one of the only five cities in Los Angeles County to permit casino gambling...
- Bell Hill, Washington
Bell Hill is a census-designated place in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 731 at the 2000 census. Located just outside of the city of Sequim, Bell Hill has become a fast-growing destination for the very wealthy, with a high population of Californians who found success...
- Bell Station, California
Bell Station is an unincorporated area located along State Route 152 between Casa de Fruta and Pacheco Pass near the southeast extent of Santa Clara County, California....
- Bell Township, Pennsylvania
Bell Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Bell Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania*Bell Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania*Bell Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania...
(disambiguation)
- Alexander Graham Bell School
Alexander Graham Bell School is a public school located in the Wrigleyville section of Chicago, Illinois, United States; it is a part of Chicago Public Schools. There are students in grades kindergarten through grade eight...
, a public school in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bell (METRORail station), station on Bell Street in Houston, Texas, United States
See also
- Bell High School (disambiguation)
- Bellville (disambiguation)
Biology
- Bell Miner
The Bell Miner, Manorina melanophrys, colloquially known as the Bellbird, is a colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia. They were given their common name because they feed almost exclusively on the dome-like coverings of certain psyllid bugs, referred to as "bell lerps," that feed on...
, colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia
- Bell pepper
Bell pepper is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in different colors, including red, yellow, green and orange. Bell peppers are sometimes grouped with less pungent pepper varieties as "sweet peppers". Peppers are native to Mexico, Central America...
, Cultivar Group of the species Capsicum annuum
- Bellbird
Bellbird is a name given to several kinds of bird, noted for their far-carrying bell-like call:* Neotropical bellbirds * Crested Bellbird * New Zealand Bellbird...
, several kinds of bird in various regions of the world that are noted for their far-carrying bell-like call
- Diving bell spider
The diving bell spider or water spider, Argyroneta aquatica, is a spider which lives entirely under water, even though it could survive on land.-Description:...
, spider which lives entirely under water
- Bell, the umbrella-shaped, non-stinging part of medusas in jellyfish
Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the Scyphozoa , Staurozoa , Cubozoa , and Hydrozoa Jellyfish (also known as jellies or sea jellies) are free-swimming members of...
- Bell, the corolla of a flower
Mathematics
- Bell curve
Bell curve can refer to:* Normal distribution, whose density function graph is a bell-shaped curve* The Bell Curve, a book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray* Bell curve grading, a method of evaluating scholastic performance....
, illustrates normal distribution in statistics.
- Bell curve grading
In education, grading on a curve is a statistical method of assigning grades designed to yield a pre-determined distribution of grades among the students in a class...
, a use of the bell curve in comparing student achievement and converting percent and percentile grades to letter grades.
- Bell number
In combinatorial mathematics, the nth Bell number, named in honor of Eric Temple Bell, is the number of partitions of a set with n members, or equivalently, the number of equivalence relations on it...
, the number of partitions of a set with n members.
- Bell's theorem
Bell's theorem is a no-go theorem, loosely stating that:It is the most famous legacy of the late physicist John S. Bell. The theorem has important implications for physics itself and philosophy of science as well.- Overview :...
, a thought experiment that suggests a limit to quantum mechanics.
- Bell test experiments
The Bell test experiments serve to investigate the validity of the entanglement effect in quantum mechanics by using some kind of Bell inequality...
, the basis of Bell's theorem.
Other
- Bell (architecture), the part of the capital
In several traditions of architecture including Classical architecture, the capital forms the crowning member of a column or a pilaster. The capital projects on each side as it rises, to support the abacus and unite the form of the latter with the circular shaft of the column...
of a column between the abacus and neck molding; especially, the nearly bell-shaped naked core assumed to exist within the leafage of a Corinthian capital
- Bell, a Canadian piano maker
- Bell (crater)
Bell is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just past the western limb. It lies in an area of terrain that is marked by many small craters, a number of which are satellite craters of Bell listed in the table below...
, a crater on Earth's moon
- Bell (cyclecar)
The Bell was a British 3 wheeled cyclecar made in 1920 by W.G. Bell of Rochester, Kent.The car was a three wheeler with the single wheel at the front and was powered by a JAP or Precision engine. The cars were advertised but it is not certain that series production ever...
, 1920s vehicle
- Bell (fictional currency), a fictional currency in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series of video games
- Bell (Monotype)
Bell is a Didone classification serif typeface designed in 1788 by Richard Austin while working in John Bell's British Type Foundry. Bell, impressed by the clarity and contrast found in contemporary French typefaces cut by Firmin Didot, wanted his foundry to offer a British version...
, a 1788 serif typeface
- Bell barrow
A bell barrow, sometimes referred to as a Wessex type barrow, campanulate form barrow, or a bermed barrow is a type of tumulus identified as such by both John Aubrey and William Stukeley....
, a burial mound
- Beaker culture
The Bell-Beaker culture , ca. 2400 – 1800 BC, is the term for a widely scattered cultural phenomenon of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic or Chalcolithic running into the early Bronze Age...
or Bell-Beaker culture, prehistoric pottery
- Bell-bottoms
Bell-bottoms are trousers that become wider from the knees downward. Related styles include flare, loon pants and boot-cut/leg trousers. Hip-huggers are bell-bottomed, flare, or boot-cut pants that are fitted tightly around the hips and thighs, worn by men and women.-Naval origins:Bell-bottoms'...
, a style of trousers
- "Bell end", a British slang term for the glans penis
The glans penis is the sensitive bulbous structure at the distal end of the penis. It is also commonly referred to as the "head" of the penis. Slang terms include "helmet", "nob" , and "bell end", and all refer to its distinctive shape. The glans penis is anatomically homologous to the clitoral...
- Bell housing
"bell housing" is a colloquial/slang term for the portion of the transmission that covers the flywheel and the clutch or torque converter of the transmission on vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. This housing is bolted to the engine block and derives its name from the bell-like...
, part of an automotive transmission
- Bell lineage, a lineage or clan of the Duala people
The Duala are an ethnic group of Cameroon. They primarily inhabit the littoral region to the coast and form a portion of the Sawa, or Cameroonian coastal peoples...
of Cameroon
- Bell pit
A bell pit is a primitive method of mining coal where the coal lies near the surface on flat land. A shaft is sunk to reach the coal which is then excavated by miners transported in by means of a winch and removed by means of a bucket...
, a type of coal mine
- Diving bell
A diving bell, also known as a wet bell, is a cable-suspended airtight chamber, open at the bottom like a moon pool structure, that is lowered underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a small number of divers. The pressure of the water keeps the air trapped inside the bell. They...
, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water
- Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the most prominent symbols of the American Revolutionary War. It is a familiar symbol of independence within the United States and has been described as an icon of liberty and justice....
, American bell of great historic significance
- USS Bell
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Bell, in honor of Rear Admiral Henry Haywood Bell.*The , was a Wickes-class destroyer.*The , was a Fletcher-class destroyer from 1943 to 1946....
, either of two ships in the United States Navy
- The Bell (novel)
The Bell is a novel written by Iris Murdoch in 1958. It was her fourth to be published, and is set in Imber Court, a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire.-Plot summary:...
, a novel by Iris Murdoch
- Bell tailslide
The Tailslide is an aerobatic maneuver that starts from level flight with a 1/4 loop up into a straight vertical climb until the aircraft loses momentum...
, an aerobatic maneuver
- Die Glocke
Die Glocke is the name of a purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device. The only source for this is the books of Polish aerospace defence journalist and military historian Igor Witkowski, which claim it to be a secret weapon, or Wunderwaffe. The topic has been popularized by Nick...
, a possibly fictional Nazi anti-gravity technology
- The Bells (Old Kingdom Series)
The Necromancer's Bells are a set of seven bells which play a pivotal role in the Old Kingdom series of books by Garth Nix. They are used both by the Abhorsen and the Necromancers, and can either bind or raise the dead. The Book of the Dead stresses with most of the bells there are unintended and...
, the Bells which feature prominently in the series by Garth Nix