periphery
the external boundary of any surface or area.
the external surface of a body.
the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area.
the relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question: The preliminary research did not, of course, take me beyond the periphery of my problem.
Anatomy. the area in which nerves end.
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How to use periphery in a sentence
Shifting D&I from the periphery to the core of company operations may seem like a heavy lift, but it’s well within leaders’ grasp.
Getting involved in diversity and inclusion is optional. That’s a problem | jakemeth | October 5, 2020 | FortuneYet that temporal component has usually been relegated to the periphery of reinforcement learning models.
Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time | Jordana Cepelewicz | September 24, 2020 | Quanta MagazineAlmost universally, they’re made by brands on the periphery of the conventional bike industry and its independent-dealer sales channel.
Do You Want to Buy an E-Cargo Bike? Read This First. | Joe Lindsey | August 30, 2020 | Outside OnlineIf we read just global foreign correspondent reporting about the Hong Kong protests, it might boil it down to the most important call and the most important point of these protests, but it does not flesh out everything else that’s in the periphery.
South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu on navigating a perilous time for Hong Kong | Pierre Bienaimé | July 14, 2020 | DigidayWe could see the level of the refugee crisis that was coming and the degree to which that could destabilize the countries around the periphery of Syria.
He just walked around the periphery of the development and proceeded on.
Another U.S. intelligence official said, “Boko Haram is really on the periphery of the al Qaeda universe.”
The problem is, that periphery has now grown much closer thanks to the location of Sochi.
The Volgograd Bombings and the Return of Big Terror to Russia | Michael Weiss | January 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite the hype over gentrification, urban economies—including that of New York—still underperform their periphery.
We were on the outer periphery of the operation, too distant to see the scene clearly without binoculars.
The Devil’s Drug: The True Story of Meth in New Mexico | Nick Romeo | August 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is sometimes indented, with its convex side in contact with the periphery of the cell.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddSo the intervals will be equal in the directions both of the periphery and of the length.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusThere is something definable there, in the periphery of those ancient ruins.
The Ghost Breaker | Charles GoddardHis eyes were still on the needles that kept creeping higher and higher along the calibrated periphery of the meters.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettThe centers of the crosses are occupied by the central hole of the whorl, while the arms extend to the periphery.
The Swastika | Thomas Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for periphery
/ (pəˈrɪfərɪ) /
the outermost boundary of an area
the outside surface of something
anatomy the surface or outermost part of the body or one of its organs or parts
Origin of periphery
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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