rotary dial

English

The LM Ericsson Dialog from the 1960s that remained popular in Sweden up until the 1980s

Alternative forms

rotary-dial

Noun

rotary dial (plural rotary dials)

a disk with finger holes, used to enter numbers by rotating the disk forward and letting it slide back
a telephone with such a disk

Translations

disk with finger holes

German: Wählscheibe (de) f, Drehscheibe (de) f

kind of telephone

German: Wählscheibentelefon (de) n, Drehscheibentelefon n, Drehtelefon n

Adjective

rotary dial (not comparable)

(of a telephone) using a rotary dial, rather than push buttons

Coordinate terms

touch-tone

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