uniformitarianism in French
uniformitarianism in French
actualisme
(chiefly, geology) The scientific principle that natural laws and processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today, and sometimes in the same way everywhere in the universe as well. [from 19th c.]
uniformitarisme
(chiefly, geology) The scientific principle that natural laws and processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today, and sometimes in the same way everywhere in the universe as well. [from 19th c.]