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altitude dial

noun

  1. an adjustable sundial utilizing the altitude of the sun, at a given latitude and time of year, as a means of telling the time.


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A preliminary report released Wednesday by French investigators said Andreas Lubitz repeatedly set the altitude dial on the Airbus A320 to 100 feet while alone in the cockpit en route from Dusseldorf to Barcelona on March 24.

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The altitude dial's finger almost jumped from forty thousand to thirty-five.

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The altitude dial's pointer reached for one thousand and slid past.

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He pulled savagely at the squat control stick; the four Rahl-Diesels unleashed a torrent of power; and the slim scout rose like a comet, and hurtled, the altitude dial's nervous finger proclaimed, to ten thousand feet.

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The altitude dial said that the water was three hundred feet beneath, and rapidly rising nearer.

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