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crossdating

crossdating is the present participle and gerund of crossdate.

Meaning of crossdate

Verb

crossdate (third-person singular simple present crossdates, present participle crossdating, simple past and past participle crossdated)

  1. To date two trees by analysis of their tree rings and, thus, show that rings on either tree were made in the same year

Questions about crossdating

What is crossdating the present participle and gerund of?
Crossdating is the present participle and gerund of crossdate.

Words near crossdating in the dictionary

  1. crosscuttings
  2. Crossdale
  3. crossdate
  4. crossdated
  5. crossdates
  6. crossdating
  7. crossdesensitisation
  8. crossdesensitization
  9. crossdisciplinarity
  10. crossdisciplinary
  11. Crossdoney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crossdating (page history and authors); crossdate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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