Carbon date

carbon datingfunction: noun date: 1951 : the determination of the age of old material (as an archaeological or paleontological specimen) by means of the content of carbon 14— carbon╟date transitive verb

Continua

con;tin;u;um pronunciation: function: noun inflected form(s): plural con;tin;ua also con;tin;u;umsetymology: latin, neuter of continuusdate: 1646 1 : a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees lt;“good” and “bad”…stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line — wayne shumakergt;2 : the set of real numbers including both the rationals and the irrationals; broadly : a compact set which cannot be separated into two sets neither of which contains a limit point of the other