RADIOACTIVE DATING

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 I. (noun) 

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

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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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