"dial indicator" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use it in a sentence like this: My mechanic recommended I check the tension on my engine using a dial indicator.
The animation that depicted these chances was a jittery little needle on a dial indicator, and early in the evening the joke was that its constant, frantic quiver was going to drive everyone nuts.
It's trimmed in leather and has a backlit blue dial indicator for that certain custom look, provided that your car is trimmed in leather, has backlit blue dial indicators and chrome accents.
The application in a scale model bridge and an actual bridge showed that the testing results of FOG-based continuous curve mode were close to the traditional way by dial indicator and total station, had the same change trend and can be used for correctly locating the bridge maximum deflection position.
In the traditional hydraulic jack-loading method, a certain force is exerted on the rail and then rail deflection is measured with a displacement meter or a dial indicator, and thus the force displacement curve can be obtained (see Fig. 2).
The accuracy between the tactile measurement system and optical measurement system showed a mean difference of -5.3 μm (dial indicator 1), 0.4 μm (dial indicator 2) and -1.8 μm (dial indicator 3).
For dial indicator 3 the mean difference was 0.4 μm with limits of agreement of -5.3 μm and 4.6 μm.
They include dial indicators, in which movement of a gauging spindle deflects a pointer on a graduated dial; wiggler indicators, which are used by machinists to centre or align work in machine tools; comparators, or visual gauges; and air gauges, which are used to gauge holes of various types.
It was found that the surface deformations measured by digital photogrammetric technique are similar to the results using dial indicators.
Instrumented striker systems, dial indicators, and optical encoders are widely used for measurement of absorbed energy in both conventional and miniature Charpy tests.
Finally, the deformation characteristics of rock mass were revealed based on a geotechnical engineering of Daye iron mine and the monitored results of digital photogrammetry were compared with the dial indicators.
The resolution of the dial indicators is known to be 1 μm.
