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- Secondary term
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rotary telephone
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/15167 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- A telephone with an opaque or transparent disc, the rotary dial, with 10 finger holes, numbers from 0 to 9, and sometimes letters, are printed on the faceplate and with a finger stop on top of the dial. Use for dialling a telephone number by inserting a finger into the corresponding finger hole and rotating the dial clockwise until it reaches the finger stop.
- Definition source(s)
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- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Canadian Heritage Information Network / Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine. 2018. “Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging / Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée.” September 1, 2018. https://www.nomenclature.info/.
- English
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- Term (International)
- rotary telephone
- Inverted term (International)
- telephone, rotary
- Alternative term(s)
- dial phone; dial telephone; rotary dial phone; rotary dial telephone; rotary phone
- French
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- Term (International)
- téléphone à cadran
- Term gender (International)
- masculine
- Alternative term(s)
- appareil téléphonique à cadran
- Date created
- 2023-05-11
- Date updated
- 2023-08-15
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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- MacNeil, Jessica. 2013. “Touch Tone Phones Are Invented, November 18, 1963.” EDN (blog). November 18, 2013. https://www.edn.com/tone-dialing-telephones-are-introduced-november-18-1963/.
- McFadden, Christopher. 2019. “What Are Rotary Dial Phones and How Do They Work?” February 5, 2019. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/what-are-rotary-dial-phones-and-how-do-they-work.
- Sun Life du Canada compagnie d’assurance-vie. 1986. “appareil téléphonique à cadran.” Grand dictionnaire terminologique. 1986. https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/18963977/appareil-telephonique-a-cadran.
- Translation Bureau / Bureau de la traduction. 2000. “rotary dial telephone / téléphone à cadran.” Termium Plus. August 23, 2000. https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&i=1&srchtxt=rotary+telephone&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Rotary Dial.” Wikipedia. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary_dial&oldid=1153888839.
- Wikipédia. 2021. “Cadran téléphonique.” Wikipédia. September 29, 2021. https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cadran_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phonique&oldid=186710685.
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