Hypertext Webster Gateway: "corpuscular"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corpuscular \Cor*pus"cu*lar\ (k?r-p?s"k?-l?r), a. [Cf. F.
corpusculaire.]
Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small
particles.
{Corpuscular philosophy}, that which attempts to account for
the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest,
position, etc., of the minute particles of matter.
{Corpuscular theory} (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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
corpuscular
adj : of or relating to corpuscles
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