corpuscular

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  1. Pertaining or relating to corpuscles; consisting of or separable into corpuscles, or minute ultimate particles. Also corpusculous.
  2. Corpuscular force. See force.
  3. Corpuscular philosophy. See philosophy.

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  • Concepts once abandoned, like the corpuscular theory of light or the transmutability of the elements, have to be looked at again, centuries later. —  F ;SF - vol 093 issue 03 - September 1997
  • He was two weeks overdue at birth, as though reluctant to leave that precious, corpuscular, sharply scented, deeply calming place—determined, as it were, to remain attached. —  FSF,July2008
  • (PTEI) explains how it is possible to influence the body by acting on its energetic - information field (the "auric / etheric body"), by mechanisms of holographic resonance. • by means of the interference of the remedy's emission of waves and the "field" of the receptor biological system • Double nature of light - corpuscular and undulatory, electric and magnetic —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • As a programmer / tech writer, I'm sort of envious of luxuries available to theoretical physicists who may contemplate such mysterious and exciting things as Heiseinberg Uncertainty Principle or wave-corpuscular dualism of elementary particles.
  • It was not, however, till the advent of Thomas Young, that the undulatory or wave theory reached its perfection, and finally overthrew its competitor the corpuscular theory. —  Aether and Gravitation
 

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  1. = French corpusculaire = Spanish Portuguese corpuscular = Italian corpusculare, from New Latin *corpuscularis, from corpusculum, a corpuscle: see corpuscle.
 

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