(finance) The date on which stock award restrictions lapse and the stock becomes available for transfer to buyer. Also the date on which stock options become available for exercise.

A date on which a callable bond may be redeemed before its maturity

A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.

(physics, archaeology, paleontology) A method of estimating the age of an artifact or biological vestige based on the relative amounts of the different isotopes of carbon present in a sample.

(law, business) Having the same date.

radiocarbon dating.

Rape committed by an acquaintance of the victim while out on a date.

(archaeology) A technique used to date bones by measuring the amount of fluorine absorbed from the surrounding soil.

(idiomatic) A date (romantic meeting) between two people who have never met before.

(archaeology) Helium dating.