Definitions for periphery

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periphery pe·riph·er·y

Spelling: [puh-rif-uh-ree]

IPA: /pəˈrɪf ə ri/

Periphery is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in periphery (eehipprry).

Definitions for periphery

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.

Origin of periphery

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

Examples for periphery

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.