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Peripheral   /pərˈɪfərəl/  /pərˈɪfrəl/   Listen
Peripheral

noun
1.
(computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer.  Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device.



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"Peripheral" Quotes from Famous Books



... pale and dreamy. Intimidated and timorous. Toward evening, bold shadows and horrific noises teemed on the twisty stairs with their grated windows, and in the great gloomy halls and passages. A more robust boy would have ignored such peripheral things, if he had noticed them at all. But on Kuno Kohn the most insignificant thing left a deep impression, the most minor thing had meaning, and horrified him. Everywhere and from everything he feared disaster. Nothing was familiar to ...
— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein

... longitudinal section, and the archesporial cells from which the spores and elaters will arise are shaded. In Riccia (fig. 4, A) the whole mass of cells derived from the ovum forms a spherical capsule, the only sterile tissue being the single layer of peripheral cells forming the wall. In other Marchantiales (fig. 4, B) the lower half of the embryo separated by the first transverse wall (1, I) forms the sterile foot and seta, while in the upper half (ka) the peripheral layer forms the wall of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

... Caesars was a centralized absolutism with a large measure of peripheral deviation and autonomy. It was directed by a central oligarchy and patrolled, defended and extended by a military force unified in theory but in practice grouped around the outstanding personalities and subjected to the vagaries and ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... in acres, of home range was plotted, on a graph, against the number of peripheral points (Figure 1). When a home range had nine or more peripheral points, on an average, the size of home range did not increase significantly with additional captures, observations in the field, or records of trails. Home ranges with less than nine peripheral points ...
— Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas • Donald W. Janes

... of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds; strategic location in ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... termination. The Filipinas are between the Malucas and the islands of Japon; and it is a thing to be wondered at that the exertions and diligence of the Portuguese, who discovered, explored, and settled Maluco, China, and Japon, the outermost and peripheral islands, should not have discovered the middle part, or center, namely, the Filipinas. It is true, they were informed concerning the island of Burney, which is the most southern of the archipelago; they did not, however, stop there, being bound for the islands of Maluco, in eager quest of spices ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XII, 1601-1604 • Edited by Blair and Robertson



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