telephone dial

1. 1.

   a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called

   Synonymsdial

   Broaderselector

   Part ofdial telephone

   Partsfinger hole

Questions about telephone dial

What does telephone dial mean?

telephone dial means "a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called".

What is another word for telephone dial?

Close synonyms include dial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is telephone dial a common word?

telephone dial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.