mobilismn.

1912 Philos. Rev. 21 287 There are..cases in morals where certainty or a fixed truth is to be found. How is this reconcilable with the contempt for reason, with the radical ‘mobilism’ which Rauh has first shown us?

1913 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 23 423 No mere ‘mobilism’ then, but the conception of freedom and discontinuity of those creative acts by which the world is made new: this it is which..the philosopher of syndicalism finds congenial in Bergson's teaching.

1965 World Politics 17 214 The performance of a political system (e.g., its ‘immobilism’ or ‘mobilism’)..[is] explainable in terms of a particular history of interaction between the political system and its social and international environments.

1933 W. H. Bucher Deformation Earth's Crust iv. 102 We have seen already that ‘mobilism’ grants continents that are capable of drifting also the capacity for stretching and deforming.

1969 tr. Physics of Solid Earth (Izvestiya Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R.) iii. 139/2 Stille, who was no supporter of mobilism, estimated the overlapping of the ocean floor along..deep-seated overthrusts to be 250 km or more for the Pliocene and Quaternary periods.

1978 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 75 36 The problem [of the wandering of the Earth's rotational pole] has become more precise due to the success of mobilism, which assumes the displacement of lithospheric plates with respect to each other.

1985 Nature 25 July 303/1 The sudden and stunning success of ‘mobilism’ in the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s.

1994 Science 265 1253/3 Alfred Wegener's mobilism threatened to upset geological applecarts.