the rotary dial

  • 1Rotary dial — A German Fe TAp 615, (R g) a widespread rotary dial telephone of the 1960s to the 1980s The rotary dial is a device mounted on or in a telephone or switchboard that is designed to send electrical pulses, known as pulse dialing, corresponding to… …

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  • 2rotary dial — adjective Of a telephone, one activated by rotating the numeric dial instead of activating push buttons. Figuratively: any old fashioned telephone. Ant: touch tone …

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  • 3rotary dial — ro′tary di′al n. tgp a disk with finger holes that is affixed to a telephone and rotated to match up the finger holes with the letters and digits of a telephone number ro′tary di′al, adj …

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  • 4rotary dial —    In a switched system, the conventional telephone dialing method that creates a series of pulses to identify the called station …

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  • 5Dial indicator — Dial indicators, also known as dial gauges and probe indicators, are instruments used to accurately measure small linear distances, and are frequently used in industrial and mechanical processes. They are named so because the measurement results… …

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  • 6Rotary system — The Rotary machine switching system was a type of automatic telephone exchange manufactured and used in Europe from the 1910s. It was developed by Bell Labs in America when they were developing the Panel system [ Fagen, M.D. A History of… …

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  • 7dial — early 15c., sundial, earlier dial of a compass (mid 14c.), apparently from M.L. dialis daily, from L. dies day (see DIURNAL (Cf. diurnal)). The word perhaps was abstracted from a phrase such as M.L. rota dialis daily wheel, and evolved to mean… …

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  • 9dial — /duy euhl, duyl/, n., v., dialed, dialing or (esp. Brit.) dialled, dialling, adj. n. 1. a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or… …

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  • 10Rotary — Rotation Rotary can refer to: * Rotary dial, a rotating telephone dial * Rotary engine, a type of internal combustion engine from the early 20th century * Rotary International, a service organization * Rotary milking shed, a type of milking shed… …

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