Uniformitarian Definition

yo͝onəfôrməterēən
adjective
Of or holding the doctrine of uniformitarianism.
Webster's New World
Of or adhering to uniformity in something.
Webster's New World
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
Wiktionary
noun
A person who adheres to some doctrine of uniformity.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Uniformitarian

Noun

Singular:
uniformitarian
Plural:
uniformitarians

Uniformitarian Sentence Examples

  • Aboard the Beagle, Darwin found himself fitting many of his observations into Lyell 's general uniformitarian view.

  • Now you know uniformitarian evolution as the brain child of Thomas Lyell, first of all, followed by Darwin, followed by Huxley.

  • Will the so-called " super greenhouse " theory and other uniformitarian assumptions answer the many difficulties Venus present us?

  • One of his earliest papers dealt with the age of the earth, and brought him into collision with the geologists of the Uniformitarian school, who were claiming thousands of millions of years for the formation of the stratified portions of the earth's crust.

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