Meaning

3 senses
  1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.

    The suburbs are a city's periphery.

    Peripherie

    перифери́яperiferíja, окра́инаokráina

    перифері́яperyferíja

    the outside boundary or surface of something

  2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.

    перифери́яperiferíja

    перифері́яperyferíja

  3. The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. They never penetrated beyond the periphery of the group.

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  2. Oxidation of fatty acids leads to a decrease in the use of glucose on the periphery.

    ruОкисление жирных кислот приводит к уменьшению использования глюкозы на периферии.

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  3. Vienna lies not in the centre of Austria, but at the country's periphery.

    deWien liegt nicht im Zentrum, sondern am Rande Österreichs.

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  4. At the coastal periphery of my university, UBC, is the nudist Wreck Beach.

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  5. Much like Nigeria, the Philippines was considered to be in the periphery of the Anglosphere.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
outside boundary, parts or surface:
Русский
By meaning 1
outside boundary, parts or surface:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
outside boundary, parts or surface:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three la

Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.

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Forms

plural: peripheries
Singularperiphery
Pluralperipheries

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
periphery — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto