Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to corpuscles; consisting of or separable into corpuscles, or minute ultimate particles. Also
corpusculous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.
- adjective that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter.
- adjective (Opt.) the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the
undulatory theory .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or composed of
corpuscles ;particulate .
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- adjective of or relating to corpuscles
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Examples
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Hence the phenomenon cannot be explained as a new characteristic radiation of the same nature as that hitherto known; and Compton deduced a new kind of corpuscular theory, with which all experimental results showed perfect agreement within the limits of experimental error.
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But this "corpuscular" theory of light was abandoned long ago due to its false predictions, versus the growing evidence of light as a massless phenomenon.
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But this "corpuscular" theory of light was abandoned long ago due to its false predictions, versus the growing evidence of light as a massless phenomenon.
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But this "corpuscular" theory of light was abandoned long ago due to its false predictions, versus the growing evidence of light as a massless phenomenon.
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I do not know what form 21st century travel technology will take, but if it is to represent progress, it will be corpuscular, asynchronous, and distributed.
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I thought of autonomous automobiles when I wrote “corpuscular, asynchronous, and distributed” above, but it seemed a bit much to pack into a blog comment.
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Red blood cells with a mean corpuscular volume (MCV) greater than 95 can signal a methylation problem.
Mark Hyman, MD: Nutrition Tips: Folic Acid: Killer or Cure-All? 2010
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Some of their observations led to the conclusion that the old “corpuscular” or atomic theory of matter was inferior to wave theory as a means of explaining or predicting some things.
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With billions in federal dough available for new KIPP stores and their chains of imitators, the plan is coming together to convert poor children to future-focused corpuscular automatons.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jim Horn 2009
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A young research student, Norbert Kreidl, developed a third technique, which was an electric counter with an amplifying set of special construction to record corpuscular radiation.
artoparts commented on the word corpuscular
Venture corpuscularian?
October 15, 2009