Dating
['deɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens.
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Date
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Examples
- Dating from three o'clock yesterday. Jane Austen. Emma.
- So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey's accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Estimates of the age of the Big Trees vary from the Christian Era through a period dating back beyond the coming of the Christian Saviour about 4,000 years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To illustrate: the dating attachment enabled users to apply the addressograph to their statement work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Again, an ?gean dagger from Mycen?, dating about 2000 B.C., shows a lion-hunt in progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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