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Corpuscular

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adj. Of, pertaining to, or composed of corpuscles; particulate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining or relating to corpuscles; consisting of or separable into corpuscles, or minute ultimate particles. Also corpusculous.

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adj. of or relating to corpuscles

Word Usage

"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."

Cross Reference

corpuscular force corpuscular philosophy corpuscular theory

Form

corpuscularism corpuscular radiation corpuscular theory

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