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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer;
- Example: "disk drives and printers are important peripherals"
[syn: peripheral, computer peripheral, peripheral device]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area;
- Example: "Russia's peripheral provinces"
- Example: "peripheral suburbs"

2. related to the key issue but not of central importance;
- Example: "a peripheral interest"
- Example: "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"
- Example: "peripheral issues"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peripheral \Pe*riph"er*al\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery;
      peripheric.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Anat.) External; away from the center; on or near the
      surface; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Pertaining to minor, unimportant, superficial, or
      irrelevant aspects of the matter in question; as,
      peripheral isssues are dealt with in the appendix.
      [PJC] Peripheric


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "peripheral":
   ambient, apparent, beside the point, circling, circumambient,
   circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous,
   circumjacent, cortical, delineatory, embracing, encircling,
   enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, enveloping, environing,
   epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external, extrinsic, fringe,
   in outline, incidental, inessential, irrelevant, minor,
   neighboring, open, out, outer, outermost, outlined, outlying,
   outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, perimetric,
   public, roundabout, secondary, seeming, suburban, superficial,
   surface, surrounding, tangential, unessential, unimportant,
   unnecessary, wrapping