Sentence examples for the dial indicating from inspiring English sources

He realized that the inscriptions on the large dial were calendrical markings indicating months, days, and the signs of the zodiac, and postulated that there must have been pointers, now missing, that represented the sun and the moon and possibly the planets, and that these pointers moved around the dial, indicating the position of the heavenly bodies at different times.

Older barometers have very artistically drawn backgrounds on the dial indicating strong winds, storms, sunny weather, etc., and they are nicely decorative but misleading nonetheless for it is the movement of the barometer needle (or the meniscus if you happen to have a very traditional old mercury tube type barometer), that has far more bearing on the coming weather.

Traveling eastward, ever eastward, flying at eight kilometers per second, the dials indicated: 28,000 kmph, although Gagarin would not have experienced any sense of speed.

The secondary command dial, indicated, is on the front of the camera, near the power switch and shutter button.

"We've been studying this panel in the newspapers; it has dials indicating the force of the wind, and other matters of interest to the helmsman.

On the Lady Arpels Poetic Wish, the silhouette of a young woman moves slowly from the left to the center of the dial to indicate the exact hour.

As you inflate the cuff by squeezing the rubber bulb repeatedly, the dial will indicate an increasing pressure.

The dial may indicate letters "A" "B" "C" etc., "warm, hot and hotter" or as in the case of the one pictured, the actual temperature in degrees.

The machine and the light-emitting diode which signaled that its power was connected were in view of the subject, but the dials which indicated the US were out of sight.

However, I noticed that I was getting the "beep beep beep" before the dial tone that indicated there was a voice message.

He posited that there must have been a revolving ball built in the front dial that indicated the phases of the moon — one hemisphere was black, the other white, and the ball rotated as the moon waxed or waned.