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Dial

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dial
1. the circular graduated disc of various measuring instruments
2. 
a. the control on a radio or television set used to change the station or channel
b. the panel on a radio on which the frequency, wavelength, or station is indicated by means of a pointer
dial [dīl]
(communications)
In automatic telephone switching, a type of calling device which, when wound up and released, generates pulses required for establishing connections.
(design engineering)
A separate scale or other device for indicating the value to which a control is set.
DIAL [′dī‚al]
Dial 

a subassembly of a telephone that is used to control the operation of the apparatus in an automatic telephone exchange in order to establish a connection to the subscriber being called. Dials may be of the disk or push-button types, depending on the method of selecting the desired number.
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But if I yield to it, the moment my eyes rest upon the dial I am filled with a mysterious apprehension--a sense of imminent calamity.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
This dial with movable needle is a manometer, is it not?
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
To test the intensity of the light whose nature and cause he could not determine, he took out his watch to see if he could make out the figures on the dial.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
 
 
 
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