rotary dial

English

The LM Ericsson Dialog from the 1960s that remained popular in Sweden up until the 1980s

Alternative forms

• rotary-dial

Noun

rotary dial (plural rotary dials)

1. a disk with finger holes, used to enter numbers by rotating the disk forward and letting it slide back
2. a telephone with such a disk

Translations

disk with finger holes

• German: Wählscheibe (de) f, Drehscheibe (de) f

kind of telephone

• German: Wählscheibentelefon (de) n, Drehscheibentelefon n, Drehtelefon n

Adjective

rotary dial (not comparable)

1. (of a telephone) using a rotary dial, rather than push buttons

Coordinate terms

• touch-tone