Definitions for peripherals

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peripherals pe·riph·er·al

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

IPA: /pəˈrɪf ər əl/

Peripherals is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 759 anagrams from letters in peripherals (aeehilpprrs).

Definitions for peripherals

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.
5. pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery:
6. concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question.
7. Anatomy. near the surface or outside of; external.
8. 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.
2. 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 peripherals

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

Examples for peripherals

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.

While the reliability record of the central processors has been excellent, that of many of the peripherals has not.

And if that hadn't created a dependent-enough user base, the company's Apple-only peripherals policy made them even more so.

Software developed by a computer manufacturer usually takes advantage of the peculiarities of his own peripherals.

It will allow developers to build their own peripherals for Android phones.