ALL meanings of periphery
pe·riph·er·y
P p - noun periphery outer edge 1
- noun periphery outskirts 1
- noun plural periphery the external boundary of any surface or area. 1
- noun plural periphery the external surface of a body. 1
- noun plural periphery the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area. 1
- noun plural periphery 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. 1
- noun plural periphery Anatomy. the area in which nerves end. 1
- countable noun periphery If something is on the periphery of an area, place, or thing, it is on the edge of it. 0
- countable noun periphery The periphery of a subject or area of interest is the part of it that is not considered to be as important or basic as the main part. 0
- noun periphery the outermost boundary of an area 0
- noun periphery the outside surface of something 0
- noun periphery the surface or outermost part of the body or one of its organs or parts 0
- noun periphery a boundary line, esp. that of a rounded figure; perimeter 0
- noun periphery an outside surface, esp. that of a rounded object or body 0
- noun periphery surrounding space or area; outer parts; environs or outskirts 0
- noun periphery the area surrounding a nerve ending 0