The phrase "a dial at the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific location or position of a dial on a device or instrument.
Example: "To adjust the volume, turn a dial at the top of the speaker."
Alternatives: "a knob on the" or "a gauge at the".
In order to use it, one has to insert the penetrometer into the soil and note a reading that appears on a dial at the top.
Fittingly for a company that prides itself on its pioneering spirit, it is the first of its kind; combining lateral, linear, jumping and retrograde hour functions to power an unusual time display from which the hours are read laterally across the side and the minutes via a dial at the top.
The bottle keeps track of your conservation efforts via a dial at the bottom of the bottle that you turn every time you refill, maxing out at the 999th refill.
Turns out the iPod dial isn't a dial at all; it's just four buttons arranged in a circle.
This may not be a dial at all; it might be a series of button presses.
It's really more of a paddle with a small dial at the top and an L.E.D. screen that currently reads 50 -- zero means "tune out" and 100 "riveting".
In order to ensure reproducibility of the measurements upon initial flap reflection, after block placement, and at reentry, morphometric measurements of the width of the ridges were recorded with a dial caliper at the point immediately apical to the head of the fixation micro-screw, which corresponds to the stabilization of the caliper 6 mm apical to the crest.
Van Cleef&Arpels went for red in its Pavot Mystérieux, with a diamond-encrusted dial at the heart of a large ruby and diamond poppy.
Dr. Nordgren has designed and built sundials, including a two-story dial at the University of Redlands, and is one of seven scientists and artists that turned the NASA Mars Exploration Rover camera calibration targets into working Martian sundials.
At the time he was greatly influenced by a magazine called the Dial, at the time the foremost periodical devoted to intransigence in the arts & to the avant-garde in general.
At a recent panel on Dial at the National Academy Museum, in New York, he said that the only remaining question is which "major institutional curator is going to be the first to do a major retrospective of his work east of the Rockies and north of the Mason-Dixon line.
