dialing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dial

noun

1. The act by which a number is dialed.

   “Even with that many votes, a few thousand errant dialings could affect the results.”

2. (archaic)The art of constructing dials.
3. The science of measuring time by use of a dial.
4. 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; the use of a miner's dial.