单词 | carbon-date |
释义 | carbon-datev. transitive. To establish the age or date of (an object, sample, etc.) by carbon dating. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > use methods of dating carbon-date1953 radiocarbon-date1956 carbon–14 date1957 age-date1967 1953 Amer. Antiq. 19 35/1 The technique..occurs in Formative cultures, in such complexes as Tlatilco,..carbon-dated at the middle of the second millennium B.C. 1979 Daily Tel. 15 Oct. 21/1 Scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are anxious to carbon-date the 14-foot cloth. 1997 Fore! July 133/3 One veteran [sc. an olive tree]..has been carbon dated and found to be an amazing 1,200 years old. 2002 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. ix. 2/3 Mr. Moretti..and his four bandmates affect an insouciant style in grooming and dress that can be carbon-dated as far back as Lou Reed. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1953 |
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