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dialing

verbnouncommon in dialogue

The act by which a number is dialed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of dialpresent participle and gerund of dial

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which a number is dialed.

    Even with that many votes, a few thousand errant dialings could affect the results.

  2. 2

    archaicThe art of constructing dials.

  3. 3

    The science of measuring time by use of a dial.

  4. 4

    A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor; the use of a miner's dial.

Forms

plural
dialings
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