dialing

English

Alternative forms

• (UK, etc.) dialling

Pronunciation

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Verb

dialing

1. present participle and gerund of dial

Noun

dialing (plural dialings)

1. The act by which a number is dialed.
   • 2008 April 12, Edward Wyatt, “As Callers, ‘Idol’ Fans Often Lack Real Talent”, in New York Times‎:

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

2. (archaic) The art of constructing dials.
3. The science of measuring time by use of a dial.
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.

Derived terms

• decadic dialing
• decadic dialling
• demon dialing
• dialling code
• dialling tone
• loop disconnect dialing
• pulse dialling
• rotary dialing
• tone dialling
• touch-tone dialling

Anagrams

• gliadin