corpuscular theory

1. Bradley's discovery supported a corpuscular theory, or at least it did not support the idea of an ether drag.
   布拉德利的发现支持微粒子理论，或至少它不支持以太拖拉的想法。
2. In optics we have to decide in favour of the wave theory against the corpuscular theory of light.
   在光学中我们赞成光的波动说，而反对光的微粒说。
3. The photoelectric effect and the Compton effect, then, both seem to demand a return to a corpuscular theory of light.
   因此，光电效应和康普顿效应似乎都要求回到光的微粒说上来。

noun

1. (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles

   Synonym:    corpuscular theory of light