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Dial may mean:
  • Dial (of telephone), a device for the input of numbers in telephones and similar devices
  • A 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'
  • 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'.

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.
dial refers, in older telephones, to a rotating disk with 10 numbered finger holes - a rotary dial. When a particular numbered hole is rotated with the finger to a finger stop set at a specific point across the dial, then released, the dial mechanism rotates the dial back to its
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sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. The most commonly seen designs, such as the 'ordinary' or standard garden sundial, cast a shadow on a flat surface marked with the hours of the day.
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The face is the front part of the head, in humans from the forehead to chin including the hair, forehead, eyebrow, eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, lips, philtrum, teeth, skin, and chin. The face is used for expression, appearance and identity amongst others.
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Circadian Locomotor Output Cycles Kaput, or Clock is a gene which encodes proteins regulating circadian rhythm. The CLOCK protein seems to affect both the persistence and length of the circadian cycle. CLOCK forms part of a basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor.
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A dial is generally a flat surface, circular or rectangular, with numbers or similar markings on it, used for displaying the setting or output of a timepiece, radio, clock, watch, or measuring instrument. See also "dial indicator".
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Dial House is a sixteenth-century farm cottage in the countryside surrounding Epping Forest in south west Essex, England.

The house is situated in Ongar Great Park, an area covering 5x3 kilometers that Oliver Rackham describes as possibly having been the "prototype deer
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The Dial Corporation is a maker of personal care and household cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It began as a brand of deodorant soap manufactured by Armour and Company, the legendary Chicago meatpacking firm, and through a series of mergers, acquisitions and
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The Dial Corporation is a maker of personal care and household cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It began as a brand of deodorant soap manufactured by Armour and Company, the legendary Chicago meatpacking firm, and through a series of mergers, acquisitions and
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The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. In the 1880s it was revived as a political magazine.
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Dial Records has been the name of at least four different record labels in the 20th century:
  • Dial Records (1946) - a US based company.
  • Dial Records (1964) - a US based company.
  • Dial Records (1998) - a US based company.

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mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode. Most digital cameras, especially dSLR and SLR-like cameras, employ a mode dial. On point-and-shoot cameras which employ these dials, the mode dials generally offer a range of scene types.
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digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that uses an automatic mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens through the viewfinder.
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digital camera is an electronic device used to capture and store photographs digitally, instead of using photographic film like conventional cameras, or recording images in an analog format to magnetic tape like many video cameras.
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For dialects of programming languages, see .


A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.
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sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. The most commonly seen designs, such as the 'ordinary' or standard garden sundial, cast a shadow on a flat surface marked with the hours of the day.
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