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A dial test indicator (or DTI) is used to measure run out. It is also used to measure quality and consistency in the manufacturing process. One application in the manufacturing process would be to measure roundness. 3 people found this useful.
This system, similar but distinct from the panel call indicator of the 1920s and automatic number identification of the 1940s, which communicated telephone numbers to machines, was the predecessor to what is now caller ID, which communicates numbers to people.