The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or composed of corpuscles; particulate.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to corpuscles
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "corpuscular".
First, the corpuscular stream of neutrinos must be received by an instrument that has a resolution of at least 30,000 eV and is aimed at a radiant in the Canis Minor, with a possible deviation of 1.
This was greeted by some as vindicating the corpuscular theory, but it turns out that the same result can be derived from wave considerations too, although not as simply.
Concepts once abandoned, like the corpuscular theory of light or the transmutability of the elements, have to be looked at again, centuries later.
Such a notion was incompatible with a field theory of light, in which disturbances propagate at a characteristic rate that has nothing to do with the movement of their sources, and was reminiscent of the corpuscular theory that interference experiments were thought to have laid to rest.
He establishes for his guide some fanciful theory of corpuscular attraction, of chemical agency, of mechanical powers, of stimuli, of irritability accumulated or exhausted, of depletion by the lancet &.