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单词 carbon-date
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carbon-datev.

Brit. /ˈkɑːbənˌdeɪt/, U.S. /ˈkɑrbənˌdeɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: carbon n., date v.
Etymology: < carbon n. + date v. Compare slightly earlier carbon date n., carbon-dated adj., and carbon dating n. Compare also radiocarbon-date vb. at radiocarbon n. and adj. Compounds.
transitive. To establish the age or date of (an object, sample, etc.) by carbon dating. Also in extended use.
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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).
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