dialing
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (UK, etc.) dialling
Verb
[edit]dialing
- present participle and gerund of dial
Noun
[edit]dialing (plural dialings)
- 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[1]:
- Even with that many votes, a few thousand errant dialings could affect the results.
- (archaic) The art of constructing dials.
- The science of measuring time by use of a dial.
- 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.