the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area.
the relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question: The preliminary research did not, of course, take me beyond the periphery of my problem.
Anatomy. the area in which nerves end.
Origin of periphery
1350–1400; <Late Latin peripherīa<Greek periphéreia circumference, literally, a bearing round, equivalent to peri-peri- + phér(ein) to bear1 + -eia-y3; replacing Middle English periferie<Medieval Latin periferīa, variant spelling of Late Latin peripherīa
Shifting D&I from the periphery to the core of company operations may seem like a heavy lift, but it’s well within leaders’ grasp.
Getting involved in diversity and inclusion is optional. That’s a problem|jakemeth|October 5, 2020|Fortune
Yet that temporal component has usually been relegated to the periphery of reinforcement learning models.
Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time|Jordana Cepelewicz|September 24, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Almost universally, they’re made by brands on the periphery of the conventional bike industry and its independent-dealer sales channel.
Do You Want to Buy an E-Cargo Bike? Read This First.|Joe Lindsey|August 30, 2020|Outside Online
If we read just global foreign correspondent reporting about the Hong Kong protests, it might boil it down to the most important call and the most important point of these protests, but it does not flesh out everything else that’s in the periphery.
South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu on navigating a perilous time for Hong Kong|Pierre Bienaimé|July 14, 2020|Digiday
We could see the level of the refugee crisis that was coming and the degree to which that could destabilize the countries around the periphery of Syria.
Speak Softly and Carry Big Data (Ep. 395)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 31, 2019|Freakonomics
He just walked around the periphery of the development and proceeded on.
Exclusive: Inside a Cop-Killer’s Final Hours|Michael Daly|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Another U.S. intelligence official said, “Boko Haram is really on the periphery of the al Qaeda universe.”
Boko Haram’s Bin Laden Connection|Eli Lake|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The problem is, that periphery has now grown much closer thanks to the location of Sochi.
The Volgograd Bombings and the Return of Big Terror to Russia|Michael Weiss|January 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Despite the hype over gentrification, urban economies—including that of New York—still underperform their periphery.
The Revolt Against Urban Gentry|Joel Kotkin|November 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
They are Kurds, Iraqis, Somalis, Turks, Bosnians, who live on the periphery of the city.
The Ugly Side of Sweden|Janine di Giovanni|July 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If the angle in the periphery be equall to the angle in the center, it is double to it in base.
The Way To Geometry|Peter Ramus
Here on the periphery, cast formalities were all but dispensed with.
They Also Serve|Donald E. Westlake
From this fireplace the floor extends, nearly flat, to within ten feet of the extreme outer edge or periphery of the ruin.
Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi|David Ives Bushnell
To reason, miracle is absurd, inconceivable; as inconceivable as wooden iron or a circle without a periphery.
The Essence of Christianity|Ludwig Feuerbach
Actually it may mean that very little blood enters the periphery.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:|Louis Marshall Warfield
British Dictionary definitions for periphery
periphery
/ (pəˈrɪfərɪ) /
nounplural-eries
the outermost boundary of an area
the outside surface of something
anatomythe surface or outermost part of the body or one of its organs or parts
Word Origin for periphery
C16: from Late Latin peripherīa, from Greek, from peri- + pherein to bear