DIAL

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'Dial' may mean:

Dial (of telephone), a device for the input of numbers in telephones and similar devices

★ Dial, a person's face; slang; v., e.g., P.G. Wodehouse

★ The circular display of a clock or watch

Dial (display), a display device in radio, measuring instruments, etc

Dial House, an anarchist-pacifist open house in Essex, England

Dial (soap)

Dial Corporation, a consumer products company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Henkel KGaA

★ ''The Dial'', an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929

Dial Records, a name used by several record companies

DIAL (Markup Language), Device Independent Authoring Language, a W3C Working Draft

Mode dial, part of dSLR and SLR-like digital cameras

★ 'dial.' can be an abbreviation for 'dialect'.

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Etymology
Etymology

Its original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial', from Latin ''diālis'' = "daily", "concerning the day", because of its use in telling the time of day.

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