What is "dial."

Usage examples of "dial.".

He slapped the switch on the ranging computer read the dial. "Five hundred yards.

He glanced at the thermocouple dial. "It's been over us periodically.

He held out his left arm, kept his gaze on the monitor dial. "Three changes through him by now for sure and he's still off the meter.

He tucked the plugs into his ears and pressed the box onto the vault door, near the dial. Eyes closed, face intent, he bent over the dial like a man over a lover, closing out everything else, living only for the next motion, the next sound, the next soft stirring that would tell him that his lover was responding.

Walker made a point of turning his back and moving off a few feet while Davis fiddled with the dial. Both Faith and Walker were careful not to look at the doorway, where they hoped an eavesdropper hovered like a flesh-and-blood ghost.

Aivas called it a watch-and the first time F'lessan had worn it he had indeed watched, mesmerized, as the long second hand made its way around the dial. Jancis had presented it to him on his birthing day.

Now he turned his attention to the western dial. This he set upon a certain point.