Dating (disambiguation)

Dating is an activity by two humans who are exploring or are in a romantic relationship.

The term may also refer to:

• Courtship, period in a couple's relationship which precedes engagement and marriage
• Timestamp, information identifying the date and time when a certain event occurred

• Chronological dating, estimating the age of an object or linguistic artifact
  • Relative dating, determining the relative order of past events
  • Absolute dating, determining an approximate age in archaeology or geology
    • Radiometric dating, a family of techniques used to date objects using radioactive impurities
  • Dendrochronology, dating tree rings to the year they were formed