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RADIOACTIVE DATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does radioactive dating mean?
• RADIOACTIVE DATING (noun)
The noun RADIOACTIVE DATING has 1 sense:
1. measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object
Familiarity information: RADIOACTIVE DATING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("radioactive dating" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
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