Dial may refer to:

Mechanical device

Rotary dial A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number ...

, a device for the input of number(s) in telephones and similar devices * Dialling, usually means to make a telephone call by turning the rotary dial or pressing the buttons *

Dial (measurement) A dial is generally a flat surface, circular or rectangular, with numbers or similar markings on it, used for displaying the setting or output of a timepiece, radio, clock, watch, or measuring instrument. There are many instruments used in scient ...

, a display device in radio, measuring instruments, etc. *

Mode dial A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode. Most digital cameras, including dSLR and SLR-like cameras, support modes, selectable either by a rotary dial or from a menu. On point-and-shoot cameras ...

, part of dSLR and SLR-like digital cameras

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* DIAL, an acronym for differential absorption LIDAR * DIAL, an acronym for Discovery and Launch, a network protocol * DIAL, an acronym for Digital Impact Alliance * Dunedin International Airport Limited, New Zealand * Delhi International Airport (P) Limited, Delhi, India

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* Dial (surname), people named Dial *

Dial Corporation Henkel Corporation, doing business as Henkel North American Consumer Goods, and formerly The Dial Corporation, is an American company based in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a manufacturer of personal care and household cleaning products, and is ...

, a consumer products company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. * Dial (soap), a brand of antibacterial soap and related products *

Dial, West Virginia Dial is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...

, a community in the United States *

Dial (band) Dial is a progressive rock band based in the Netherlands. History Dial was founded in late 2003 by Liselotte Hegt, Rommert van der Meer and Kristoffer Gildenlöw. Early on, the band was pure a hobby but after Gildenlöw's departure from Swedish ...

, a Dutch progressive rock band * Dial Press, a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh *''

The Dial ''The Dial'' was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and ...

'', an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929 *''

Dial H for Hero ''Dial H for Hero'' is a comic book feature published by DC Comics about a magical dial that enables an ordinary person to become a superhero for a short time, such as an hour, by selecting the letters H-E-R-O in order. Each time it is used, the di ...

'', a comic book feature published by DC Comics *-dial, the suffix for

dialdehyde In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred to as an aldehyde but can also be classified as a formyl group ...

s (a molecule with two aldehyde groups) *'dial.' can be an abbreviation for '

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...

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