'Dating' definitions:

Definition of 'dating'

From: WordNet
noun
Use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens [syn: dating, geological dating]

Definition of 'Dating'

From: GCIDE
  • Date \Date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.]
  • 1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: We may say dated at or from a place. [1913 Webster]
  • The letter is dated at Philadephia. --G. T. Curtis. [1913 Webster]
  • You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]