0 present participle of dial
1 the action of making a phone call, for example by pressing a series of buttons:
A random-digit dialling framework was used to select respondents.
Further developments could involve the use of brain waves which could be analysed for dialling purposes and for other applications.
Here two versions of a speech interface for dialling telephone numbers were tested.
For each case, two controls were selected from households identified using progressive digit dialling based on the case's home telephone number.
The sample was obtained by using 'random-digit dialling' until 1,000 respondents were obtained.
For each case, one agematched neighbourhood control was identified either by the case or by random digit dialling.
Matched controls were selected by progressive digit dialling based on cases' telephone numbers.
Two age-matched controls were selected for each patient by sequential digit dialling anchored to a case's telephone number.
