Dialing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dial.

II. Dialing ·noun The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.

III. Dialing ·noun 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.