Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carbon-14_dating

1 sense of carbon-14 dating

Sense 1
radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 dating -- (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)
       => dating, geological dating -- (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)