say it: DAY-ting
dating is a noun meaning "use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens". It carries one recorded sense.
use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.