Definition of "corpuscles" [corpuscles]

• Plural form of corpuscle. (noun)

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• "We are, however, possibly indebted to Professor J.J. Thomson for the most direct experimental evidence as to the atomic nature of electricity, for, as is well known to scientists, he has discovered what he termed corpuscles, in association with electricity, which he makes the carriers of the charges involved in electrical phenomena."
• "I always thought they should be called corpuscles."
• "We have repeated this experiment several times with the same result, thus showing that the complement in the white corpuscles is a very fragile substance."