Definitions for peripheries

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peripheries pe·riph·er·y

Spelling: [puh-rif-uh-ree]

IPA: /pəˈrɪf ə ri/

Peripheries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in peripheries (eeehiipprrs).

Definitions for peripheries

noun

1. the external boundary of any surface or area.
2. the external surface of a body.
3. the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area.
4. the relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question:
5. Anatomy. the area in which nerves end.
6. the external boundary of any surface or area.
7. the external surface of a body.
8. the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area.
9. the relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question:
10. Anatomy. the area in which nerves end.

Origin of peripheries

1350-1400; Late Latin peripherīa Greek periphéreia circumference, literally, a bearing round, equivalent to peri- peri- + phér(ein) to bear

Examples for peripheries

The problem is, that periphery has now grown much closer thanks to the location of Sochi.

Another U.S. intelligence official said, “Boko Haram is really on the periphery of the al Qaeda universe.”

So a circle is a figure: Because it is a plaine every way bounded with one periphery.

A tangent is but one onely in that point of the periphery Schoner.

He just walked around the periphery of the development and proceeded on.

They are Kurds, Iraqis, Somalis, Turks, Bosnians, who live on the periphery of the city.

Despite the hype over gentrification, urban economies—including that of New York—still underperform their periphery.

Draw a periphery by three points, which doe not fall in a right line.

So the intervals will be equal in the directions both of the periphery and of the length.

Even chiaroscuros, with their few sober tones, fell into this periphery.

The same principle, that of using discs with figures on their peripheries, is employed in present-day calculating machines.

The peripheries of this row of cylinders are cut in figures, according to the design of the pattern to be worked.

When we feel a weakening at the center we feel a horror in the peripheries.

Then upon the ends y, and u, at the distances ou, and ys; let two peripheries meet in the point r.

The fusees are fixed obliquely and not tangentially to their peripheries.

Here Euclide doth by congruency comprehende two peripheries in one, and so doe we comprehend them.

The angles in the center or periphery of equall circles, are as the peripheries are upon which they doe insist: And contrariwise.

Therefore if the angles be unequall, the peripheries likewise shall be unequall.

For let the circles agree, and then shall equall inscripts and peripheries agree.

These serve, by friction, to drive the bobbins which rest upon their peripheries.