Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun radioactive_dating

1 sense of radioactive dating

Sense 1
radioactive dating -- (measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object)
       => measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration -- (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate")