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
- Double dating, or dual dating, using two years in a calendar date, or including dates from both the Julian and Gregorian calendars

People

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

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