periphery
noun/pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.
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The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- The suburbs are a city's periphery.
- Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.2015 January 8, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
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- The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.2018, Balázs Áron Kovács, Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
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A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
- Antonyms
- center
- Derived terms
- left periphery, midperiphery, peripherolobular, semiperiphery
- Related terms
- peripherad, peripheral