dial pad

Phone number entry

A dial pad is the grid of buttons on a telephone or touchscreen used for entering numbers, typically arranged with 1-2-3 across the top and 0 at the bottom, flanked by * and #.

The term persists from rotary dial days, though modern dial pads are pressed rather than dialed: She punched her PIN into the dial pad.

Related

touch tone · digits · keys · rotary · tone · beep · punch · enter · PIN · code · call · conference call · phone tree · press · numeric · phone number · area code · calculator

Categories
Opposites
input method

dial padrotary dial

Circular phone input

speech recognition · voice command · voice control · gesture control · touchscreen

phone interface component

dial padscreen

Display or barrier

LCD display · touchscreen display · visual display · display · LCD screen

Family

dial, pad, dials, dialed, dialing, dialer, dialers, pads, padded

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G