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- Primary term
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dialer, rotary telephone
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/14974 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- A small usually metal or plastic device, in various styles, consisting of a spherical shaped head narrowing to a thin disk fixed to a slightly curved and flattened cylindrical handle. Inserted into the rotary dial wheel of a telephone, in lieu of the finger and, used mostly by women, to dial numbers and to prevent damaging the fingernails.
- 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 dialer
- Inverted term (International)
- dialer, rotary telephone
- French
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- Term (International)
- composeur à téléphone à cadran
- Term gender (International)
- masculine
- Alternative term(s)
- tourne-cadran téléphonique
- Date created
- 2020-01-24
- Date updated
- 2021-12-14
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. n.d. “Telephone Dialer (USA), ca. 1960.” Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Accessed July 26, 2019. https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18790181/.
- Office québécois de la langue française. n.d. “composition au cadran.” Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Accessed July 26, 2019. http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8366242.
- Worthpoint. n.d. “Sterling Silver & Aluminum Rotary Telephone Dialer - C1940’s - #439565988.” Worthpoint. Accessed July 26, 2019. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/sterling-silver-aluminum-rotary-439565988.
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