Dial(n.)
- An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
Dial(n.)
- The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
Dialing(n.)
- The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
Dialing(n.)
- 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.