noun
Meaning 1
radiocarbon dating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
carbon dating
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noun
Meaning 2
a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: radiocarbon dating, carbon-14 dating
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dating, geological dating
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: karbon 14-datering — radiocarbon dating
- Danish: kulstof 14-datering — radiocarbon dating
- Dutch: koolstofdatering — radiocarbon dating
- Finnish: hiiliajoitus — radiocarbon dating
- Finnish: radiohiiliajoitus — radiocarbon dating
- Irish: dátú carbóin — radiocarbon dating
- Irish: dátú radacarbóin — radiocarbon dating
- Māori: inewā horowaro — radiocarbon dating
- Norman: dat'tie au tchèrbon — radiocarbon dating
- Norwegian Bokmål: karbondatering — radiocarbon dating
- Norwegian Nynorsk: karbondatering — radiocarbon dating
- Swedish: kol-14-datering — radiocarbon dating
- Swedish: C14-datering — radiocarbon dating
- Swedish: radiokoldatering — radiocarbon dating