Dial

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Not to be confused with a diol, a chemical containing two hydroxyl groups.

Dial may mean:

• Rotary dial, a device for the input of numbers in telephones and similar devices
• A sundial or clock face
• Dial (display), a display device in radio, measuring instruments, etc
• Slang for a person's face, e.g., P.G. Wodehouse
• 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
• DIAL (Text Mining), Declarative Information Analysis Language
• Mode dial, part of dSLR and SLR-like digital cameras
• 'dial.' can be an abbreviation for 'dialect'.
• -dial, the suffix for dialdehydes (a molecule with two aldehyde groups)

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• Dialling

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