periphery
Syllables: pe·riph·eryUK/pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/
periphery noun: the outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
Noun
periphery (plural peripheries)
- The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- The suburbs are a city's periphery.
- Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.2015 January 8, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
- A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
- The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
periphery meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
periphery in Tamil
- புற எல்லை, புறஎல்லை, எல்லைப் பகுதி, புறப்பகுதி, பரிதி, விளிம்பு
periphery in Marathi
- परिघ, परिघा
periphery in Bengali
- প্রান্ত, সীমানা, কেন্দ্রের বাইরে
periphery in Malayalam
- അതിര്, പരിധി, ചുറ്റളവ്, പ്രാന്തപ്രദേശം, പുറംഭാഗം, വൃത്തപരിധി
More languagesFewer languages
- periphery in Kannada
- ಹದ್ದು, ಎಲ್ಲೆ, ಗಡಿ
- periphery in Punjabi
- ਪੈਰੀਫਰੀ, ਪੈਰੀਫੇਰੀ
- periphery in Gujarati
- પરિઘ
- periphery in Odia
- ପରିଧି
- periphery in Sanskrit
- कक्षा kakṣā
- periphery in Nepali
- परिघ
- periphery in Indonesian
- pinggir, ujung, tepi
Examples of periphery in a sentence
- The disturbances at the periphery became a focal concern later in the investigation.
- Flexible normalism follows the assumption that people reach the periphery of society by chance.
- Lurking on the periphery of the Twilight fandom are the lolfans.
Antonyms of periphery
Forms of periphery
| plural | peripheries |
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Origin of periphery
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.
Words formed from periphery
Questions about periphery
- What does periphery mean?
- Periphery means the outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- What is periphery in Tamil?
- Periphery in Tamil is புற எல்லை, புறஎல்லை, எல்லைப் பகுதி. See Periphery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is periphery?
- Periphery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce periphery?
- Periphery is pronounced /pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of periphery?
- The plural of periphery is peripheries.
Words near periphery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: periphery (page history and authors); periphery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); periphery (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); periphery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); periphery (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); periphery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); periphery (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); periphery (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); periphery (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कक्षा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); periphery (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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