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peripheral

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES peripheral vision (= your ability to see things to the side of you when you are looking ahead ) ▪ She could read easily, but her peripheral vision was poor. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN area ▪ The government ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from periphery + -al (1). An earlier formation was peripherial (1670s). Related: Peripherally . As a noun, peripherals , "peripheral devices of a computer," is from 1966.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer; "disk drives and printers are important peripherals" [syn: computer peripheral , peripheral device ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peripheral \Pe*riph"er*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric. (Anat.) External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A peripheral is "an ancillary device used to put information into and get information out of the computer". There are three different types of peripherals: input devices , which interact with or send data from the user to the computer (mice, keyboards, ...

Usage examples of peripheral.

In her peripheral vision Marcie saw Chase glance at her before returning his attention to the road.

It takes me some time to put together the jigsaw shapes in his peripheral vision, to recognize the mech that called itself Microtron, and, much to my surprise, Persephone.

His flesh was stitched to the cold stones underneath, and he had lost his peripheral vision.

Peripheral vision told me Brasil had done the same with the frag rifle, and that Sierra Tres had her arms at her sides.

Here belongs all so-called mechanical dyslalia, caused by defects of the peripheral speech-apparatus.

He triggered the full-circle display, the fisheye appearing in the lower corner of his sight where peripheral vision would pick it up.

On global and peripheral Fordism, see primarily Alain Lipietz, Mirages and Miracles: The Crises of Global Fordism, trans.

If to direct eyesight, no design appeared evident, the far fringes of peripheral vision sometimes tagged his tracery in hair-fine trailers of phosphor.

Roosevelt did not like the plan at all as being both peripheral and neocolonial, and it made no appeal to the Joint Chiefs.

In retinitis pigmentosa the peripheral or extramacular portions of the retina are subject to a pigmentary degeneration that renders them insensitive to light, and patients so afflicted are consequently incapable of seeing at night as well as others.

I have already hinted, in my account of the reductive steps the group employed, that a variety of experimentally or theoretically inconvenient processes that also occurred during the behaviour, such as a contribution of the peripheral nervous system, and some of the polysynaptic inputs onto the motor neuron, were dissected away and no longer taken into consideration.

With the necessary peripheral equipment, they are capable of detecting changes in voice and body language, as well as psychophysiological changes, such as heart rate, skin conductance, and blood pressure - biological cues associated with emotion and arousal that therapists may not be able to detect.

In some the top of the head is pale brown, but it is edged by a dark peripheral line, and in some there are one or more irregular dark spots between the fore-limbs.

The story of the Aotea canoe, which is the tribal canoe of the Wanganui-South Taranaki area of the west coast of the North Island, appears to stand somewhat apart from the other tribal canoe traditions and have an archaic flavour, according with the thought that the people of this peripheral area handed on to their descendants a distinctive early canoe tradition.

He took in all the peripheral scenes with a swift sweep through his virtual vision display grid, concentrating on the tracks ahead.