dateable
- adjective
- /ˈdeɪtəbl/
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datable
- The researchers found a dateable fossil that provided insight into the region's geological history.
Examples
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It includes both "traditions" actually invented, constructed, and formally instituted, and those emerging in a less easily traceable manner within a brief and dateable period... establishing themselves with great rapidity.
Academic text (1994) -
Canon 7 is difficult to date since in the extant fragments, Shenoute makes no reference to specific, independently dateable events, such as the current length of his own tenure as abbot, the episcopacies of major bishops, or Church councils that may have occurred.
Academic text (2004) -
You find it in dateable places and that's why we can give this some kind of date, such as in Egypt.
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Maybe each one could include, as well as a piece of carbon-dateable wood, a simple, foolproof Geiger counter.
Blog text (12) -
Surely these two criteria: 1) correlation with other cultures and 2) comparison with known and dateable events must be enough to prove or disprove these theories.
Blog text (11) -
The ancient pottery was dateable to around 2000 BC based on its style and material.
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This manuscript is dateable to the early 15th century, making it a valuable historical artifact.
Synonyms
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You can tell when something was made or happened
Antonyms
How Dateable
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Etymology
Dateable comes from the word date, meaning 'a day' or 'a time', plus the ending -able, meaning 'can be'. So something dateable is 'able to be given a date', for example a document or object you can place in time.