Associations to the word «Uniformitarianism»

Wiktionary

UNIFORMITARIANISM, noun. (chiefly geology) The scientific principle that natural processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today. [from 19th c.]

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.