DIALING

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]

2.
n.

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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