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periphery
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As the wave reaches the cell periphery , enough calcium may diffuse across to activate the neighbouring cell. ▪ Moss moved on the broken trees at the periphery of the golf grass. ▪ Nor was this simply on the eastern periphery ...
Wikipedia
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A periphery , ( Fr: couronne ) is an INSEE (French demographic statistics institution) statistical area designating a commuter belt around an urban unit ( Fr: unité urbaine ). Together these complete the INSEE urban area statistical area. Based on France's ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the outside boundary or surface of something [syn: fringe , outer boundary ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The outside boundary, parts or surface of something. 2 A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided in provinces.
Usage examples of periphery.
The autopilot was nursing the Witch back out toward the periphery of the Thisworld system, seeking a lane of normal spacetime sufficiently empty of particles and gravity to furnish a good, safe springboard for a c-plus jump.
A round hole in the center of the lid held one of the probe-cards, its array of microneedles matching the connections at the periphery of each F1 cube on the disk.
In a few short months the young footman found himself on the periphery of robbery and violence, knowing that he was an important lynchpin, in that he was supplying information regarding the movements of fashionable society: the houses that were empty in the monkery, the jewels that were left in London houses on nights when their owners were out at soirees and balls.
All very regrettable, but only natural: Henry Senior, in his attempt to cure William, has inflicted on the household a series of traumatic shocks, and as a consequence all its servant blood has been drawn away from the peripheries to the beleaguered heart.
The rigidifying conditions around them are ill-suited to their need for autonomy, and they both give up on their chosen professions, retreating to the obscure periphery of their society.
Here you see the sternmost 180 degrees of the Sun King with a series of water-discharge ports along the periphery.
The Branner, as you may or may not recall, occupy three star systems on the periphery of the Blight, facing Moth.
A sequined costume draped over the corner of the mirror kept appearing and disappearing at the periphery of the television screen as the cameraperson made subtle adjustments with his equipment.
We can sneak into the worlds on the periphery and poach them from Empire or Cassiopeian territory.
Both activities are assisted by the force of Mars, which directs them from the cosmic periphery toward the single physical object.
The big fieldpiece careened wildly to port as Barbousse skidded out onto the apron, then again to starboard as they raced along the periphery of the pit.
Both she and Repasi knew that heat applied to skin caused contraction of dermal capillaries, and this forced blood to the periphery of the blister, simulating an antemortem hyperemic inflammatory response.
Eye watched from his position on the periphery, jabbing only occasionally with his crab-hilted knife.
The spectre of Marcotte loomed in the shadows at the periphery of the case.
He blew like a windball, vagrant on the periphery in untraceable patterns, and the heavy cudgel, thrashing hard through the air, whined empty on the place where the ollave had been standing.