Dating (disambiguation)

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Dating may refer to:

• Dating, seeking, arranging, and participating in meetings with potential intimate partners
  • Group dating
• Chronological dating, estimating the age of an object or linguistic artifact
  • Absolute dating, in science, determining an approximate computed age
    • Radiometric dating, a family of techniques used to determine of the approximate period of origin of an object, e.g. "to carbon-date an artifact"
    • Amino acid dating
    • Archaeomagnetic dating
    • Argon–argon dating
    • Dendrochronology, for dating trees, and objects made from wood, and also important for calibrating radiocarbon dates
    • Lead Corrosion Dating
    • Obsidian hydration dating
    • Optically stimulated luminescence dating
    • Potassium–argon dating
    • Radiocarbon dating
    • Rehydroxylation dating
    • Thermoluminescence dating
    • Fluorine absorption dating
    • Oxidizable carbon ratio dating
  • Relative dating, in science, determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age
    • Archaeomagnetic dating
    • Sequence dating
  • Antique dating, for a cultural or historical object
• Scheduling or timestamping a known date
  • Dual dating, or double dating, giving two years in a calendar date (because the civil year does not start on 1 January), or including dates from both the traditional and the modern (Gregorian) calendars

People

• Dating Game Killer, Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor), a convicted rapist and serial killer

Art, entertainment, and media

• The Dating Game, an ABC-TV game show created by Chuck Barris, that aired from the 1960s-1980s
• The New Dating Game, a revival of Chuck Barris' show that ran in syndication

See also

• Blind date (disambiguation)
• Calendar era, the various methods of describing a calendar date
• Date (disambiguation)
• Double date, two pairs of partners dating as a group.
• Old Style and New Style dates, to distinguish the use of the (modern) Gregorian calendar from the (older) Julian calendar in Great Britain and its colonies, along with a change of the day when the civil year started.
• Adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the process by which various countries around the world replaced their traditional calendars with the modern Gregorian calendar.