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peripheral

puh ri fuh ruhl

  • n  (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer
    disk drives and printers are important peripherals
  • a  on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area
    Russia's peripheral provinces
    peripheral suburbs
  • s  related to the key issue but not of central importance
    a peripheral interest
    energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy
    peripheral issues

  • And that slight movement up on the ridge that you catch in peripheral vision? Depending upon the season, it could either be a rock slide or an avalanche.
  • But the best parts of season 2 which unfolded like a series of John Cheever short stories were the development of the peripheral characters.
  • But all of those players are merely peripheral.
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  • Moshe Yaalon in Reuters Canada
    This capability can be used for a war on terror in Gaza, for a war in the face of rockets from Lebanon, for war on the conventional Syrian army, and also for war on a peripheral state like Iran,said Yaalon, a former armed forces chief.
  • Bill Gates in Hindu
    LSST is truly an internet telescope which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore it. [It is] a shared resource for all humanity - the ultimate network peripheral device to explore the universe,Mr....
  • Tom Osborne in SportingNews.com
    I think it's pretty important that they have a good grasp of it,Osborne said of prospective candidates. "I think most people in football have a kind of peripheral sense of what it is like."

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