CARBON DATING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • carbon-14 dating (what does carbon-14 dating mean?)
   • radiocarbon dating (what does radiocarbon dating mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) carbon dating is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dating (what does dating mean?)
   • geological dating (what does geological dating mean?)