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n. use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens [syn: geological dating ]

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Date \Date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating .] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date .] To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. To note ...

Usage examples of dating.

He will simply allude, in conclusion, to the performances of the Mysterious Foundling, as exhibiting perfection hitherto unparalleled in the Art of Legerdemain, with wonders of untraceable intricacy on the cards, originally the result of abstruse calculations made by that renowned Algebraist, Mohammed Engedi, extending over a period of ten years, dating from the year 1215 of the Arab Chronology.

In another two hours they were back on the ship, and Batman had sworn that he was never dating another stewardess for as long as he lived.

The guest list at the Bienvenue is not your own personal dating service, Gray.

This chapel is given as completed in the 1586 edition of Caccia, so that Bordiga and Cusa are wrong in dating it 1598.

The text here given is based on the most ancient sources available, some of them apparently dating from the Ages of Chaos to judge from their archaic casta forms.

Obviously, the three points symbolize, to him, the Triple Revolution document, the historic dating point of the beginning of our era, which Chib claims to hate so.

Because northern fluted projectile points have been found only in contexts that are not datable by standard dating techniques, we must infer their age from other information.

This dating technique is called dendrochronology, and Giddings decided to apply it to his attempt to determine the age of the muck deposits.

Coity church, dating from the 14th century, is a fine cruciform building with central embattled tower in Early Decorated style.

But the greater scholars like Stout and Schultz, both of Nebraska, believe that he originated from American stock dating far back and that he emigrated over the land bridge to Asia to develop collaterally there.

Such methods include chemical, radiometric, and geomagnetic dating techniques, as well as analysis of site stratigraphy, faunal remains, tool types, and the morphology of the hominid remains.

But our own analysis of the faunal evidence, site stratigraphy, and paleomagnetic dating shows the date range for the Lantian Homo erectus skull overlaps that of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus.

By using morphological differences in the fossils of hominids to resolve contradictory faunal, stratigraphic, chemical, radiometric, and geomagnetic datings in harmony with a favored evolutionary sequence, paleoanthropologists have allowed their preconceptions to obscure other possibilities.

It was amusing to see that the bottle that the man had chosen, a big-bellied hand-blown globelet, was an outrageously precious one with what was surely more than a century of dust on it and a faded label dating it to the reign of Lord Gobryas, predecessor of Prankipin as Coronal.

It was a history, dating from when I was not sure, but guesstimated some time before the first millennium.