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 numb ...

, 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. Many scientific and industrial instrumen ...

, 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 mirrorless cameras, support modes, selectable either by a rotary dial or from a menu. On point-and-shoot camera ...

, 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 Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Businesses *Digital bank, a form of financial institution *Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company *Digital Research (DR or DRI), a software ...

Dunedin International Airport Limited Dunedin Airport , officially Dunedin International Airport, also known as Momona Airport, is an international airport in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand, serving Dunedin city and the Otago and Southland Region, Southland regi ...

, New Zealand *

Delhi International Airport (P) Limited Indira Gandhi International Airport is the primary international airport serving New Delhi, the capital of India, and the National Capital Region (India), National Capital Region (NCR). The airport, spread over an area of ,Dial (surname) Dial is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjy Dial (1943–2001), American football player *Buddy Dial (1937–2008), American football player * Derrick Dial (born 1975), American basketball player * Jeff Dial (born 1976), Ame ...

, 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 su ...

, a consumer products company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. *

Dial (soap) Dial is an American brand of soap, body wash and hand sanitizer manufactured by Henkel North American Consumer Goods, the American subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. It was the world's first antibacterial soap. History Dial emerged as a res ...

, 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 mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The U ...

, a community in the United States *

Dial (band) Dial may refer to: Mechanical device *Rotary dial, 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 ...

, a Dutch progressive rock band *

Dial Press The Dial Press is a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh. The Dial Press shared a building with ''The Dial'' and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Bur ...

, 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 an ...

'', 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 ...

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

dialdehyde In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () (lat. ''al''cohol ''dehyd''rogenatum, dehydrogenated alcohol) is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred ...

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

dialect A dialect is a Variety (linguistics), variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standard language, standardized varieties as well as Vernacular language, vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardize ...

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