dialing
撥號; 主叫
dialing
撥號
Di·al, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dialed or Dialled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dialing or Dialling.]
1. To measure with a dial.
Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven. --Talfourd.
2. Mining To survey with a dial.
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Di·al·ing n.
1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]
2. 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.
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