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altitude dial

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

From Under Arctic Ice by Winter, H. G.

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