Definitions for peripheral

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peripheral pe·riph·er·al

Spelling: [puh-rif-er-uh l]

IPA: /pəˈrɪf ər əl/

Peripheral is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in peripheral (aeehilpprr).

Definitions for peripheral

adjective

1. pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery:
2. concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question.
3. Anatomy. near the surface or outside of; external.
4. Computers. of or relating to a peripheral.

noun

1. Computers. a device or unit that operates separately from the CPU but is connected to it, as a magnetic disk or tape unit or a printer.

Origin of peripheral

1800-10; 1965-70 for def 4; Greek peripher(ḗs) (see periphery) + -al¹

Examples for peripheral

Because his new novel, The peripheral, is his most dire yet.

The play of Sunday, the play of being angels in the choir, is not just a peripheral secondary marginal realm of activity.

Then I saw something in my peripheral vision, close to my back.

They were a small and peripheral player, and now they want to be a main player—if not the main player.

If the wall of the hollow lens be rather thick, the difference in the shape of the central and peripheral pores is often striking.

Then the peripheral soul will return; and we have our safe, sane citizen again.

The process is, moreover, confined to peripheral manifestations.

Every few weeks I get so far behind on sleep that I lose my peripheral vision.

With reference to the peripheral nerve-stems there is not much to be said.

Spongy disk lenticular, with an irregular, dense framework, in the centre darker than in the peripheral part.