Dial
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'''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]]'.
===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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[[fr:Cadran]]
[[ja:ダイヤル]]