Dial

Dial may refer to:

Mechanical device

• Rotary dial, a device for the input of numbers in telephones and similar devices
• Dialling, usually means to make a telephone call by turning the rotary dial or pressing the buttons
• Dial (measurement), a display device in radio, measuring instruments, etc.
• Mode dial, part of dSLR and SLR-like digital cameras

DIAL

• DIAL, an acronym for Differential absorption LIDAR
• DIAL, an acronym for DIscovery And Launch, a network protocol
• Dunedin International Airport Limited, New Zealand
• Delhi International Airport (P) Limited, Delhi, India

Other

• Dial (surname), people named Dial
• Dial Corporation, a consumer products company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA.
• Dial (soap), a brand of antibacterial soap and related products
• Dial, West Virginia, a community in the United States
• Dial Press, a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh
• The Dial, an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929
• -dial, the suffix for dialdehydes (a molecule with two aldehyde groups)
• 'dial.' can be an abbreviation for 'dialect'

See also

• Dial House (disambiguation), various
• Dial Records (disambiguation), various
• A sundial or clock face
• Diol, a chemical containing two hydroxyl groups