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单词 periphery
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Definition of periphery in English:

periphery

nounPlural peripheries pəˈrɪf(ə)ripəˈrɪf(ə)ri
  • 1The outer limits or edge of an area or object.

    new buildings on the periphery of the hospital site
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rotor includes a ring magnetic mounted to an outer periphery thereof.
    • Note the formation of multiple hairs located at the cell periphery.
    • The distribution of soil pressure normal to the culvert periphery is plotted against the central angle in Figure 7.
    • One morning, a village on the periphery of a city wakes up to find itself bifurcated by the construction of a National Highway.
    • On the periphery of the print, I can see the living room décor as it used to be.
    • Hotels on the city's periphery also have significant lettings.
    • Briefly, the initially adsorbed liposomes seemed to collapse from the outer periphery toward the center of the liposome.
    • In town, the word referred to those who illegally took possession of land on the urban peripheries.
    • Concrete public housing projects evoke their counterparts elsewhere and shanty towns exist on the urban periphery.
    • The base plate may include flanges disposed along the outer periphery of the base plate.
    • Vimentin filaments are more prevalent in the central regions of the cell than in the cell periphery.
    • By definition, the lesions are in the lung periphery and therefore rarely present with hemoptysis or signs of infection.
    • Poised on the western periphery of Europe, Portugal has always been on the edge, looking outwards.
    • If she sees me in the periphery of her vision, I'm screwed.
    • In later use, the country's name indicates its location on the northern periphery of Europe.
    • New housing developments dot the city's periphery.
    • The ward is no longer on the periphery of the town.
    • The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
    • On the periphery of my hearing, I caught a high pitched keening sound - the sonic pulse.
    • The underdevelopment of the periphery is a condition of the development of the center.
    Synonyms
    edge, outer edge, margin, fringe, boundary, border, perimeter, circumference, rim, verge, borderline
    outskirts, outer limits/regions/reaches, bounds
    literary bourn, marge, skirt
    rare ambit
    1. 1.1 A marginal or secondary position in, or aspect of, a group, subject, or sphere of activity.
      a shift in power from the centre to the periphery
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Is speech that advocates violence at the center of the First Amendment, or at its periphery?
      • From a sport that existed on the periphery of Irish consciousness his name entered the mainstream.
      • We and the cinema must first conquer the DVD as a medium which serves the furthest peripheries of image production as much as the centre, the dissidents as much as the mainstream.
      • For all his party loyalty, he found himself increasingly marginalized in union work, pushed to the peripheries, and hung out to take the flack when things fell apart.
      • Most part-time positions are located in the periphery of the organization.
      • On the positive side it has assisted in moving issues about ageing from the periphery to the centre of political debate.
      • As the economic and social crisis mounted, democracy was confined, remarkably quickly, to the peripheries of European civilization.
      • The center may need to pay attention to the periphery and accept its influence simply in order to survive.
      • Moreover, attacks on Victorianism could come from the periphery as well as the centre.
      • The modern state thus emerged on the periphery of a dynamic area of economic growth.
      • By contrast Italian churches had tended to confine tomb monuments to the peripheries, with the wall tomb the most prestigious form of church burial.
      • In order to arrive at new prisms of analysis, we need to further de-center the West itself and look at what once were considered peripheries as centers in their own right, with their own capacity for creating history.
      • As its power of attraction increases, the center becomes more ignorant of the periphery.
      • But with respect, you are at the periphery; I would not say the margin, but you are at the periphery of that debate.
      • In sum, the prefect was the indispensable link between the centre and the periphery.
      • But there is, in many of its aspects, a confrontational bluntness that ensures relegation to the peripheries.
      Synonyms
      bounds, confines, limits, outer limits, extremities, margins, edges, fringes

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting a line that forms the boundary of something): via late Latin from Greek periphereia 'circumference', from peripherēs 'revolving around', from peri- 'around' + pherein 'to bear'.

Rhymes

midwifery
 
 

Definition of periphery in US English:

periphery

nounpəˈrif(ə)rēpəˈrɪf(ə)ri
  • 1The outer limits or edge of an area or object.

    new buildings on the periphery of the hospital site
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In town, the word referred to those who illegally took possession of land on the urban peripheries.
    • The underdevelopment of the periphery is a condition of the development of the center.
    • In later use, the country's name indicates its location on the northern periphery of Europe.
    • Concrete public housing projects evoke their counterparts elsewhere and shanty towns exist on the urban periphery.
    • By definition, the lesions are in the lung periphery and therefore rarely present with hemoptysis or signs of infection.
    • Vimentin filaments are more prevalent in the central regions of the cell than in the cell periphery.
    • On the periphery of my hearing, I caught a high pitched keening sound - the sonic pulse.
    • If she sees me in the periphery of her vision, I'm screwed.
    • Hotels on the city's periphery also have significant lettings.
    • The rotor includes a ring magnetic mounted to an outer periphery thereof.
    • Briefly, the initially adsorbed liposomes seemed to collapse from the outer periphery toward the center of the liposome.
    • One morning, a village on the periphery of a city wakes up to find itself bifurcated by the construction of a National Highway.
    • New housing developments dot the city's periphery.
    • The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
    • The distribution of soil pressure normal to the culvert periphery is plotted against the central angle in Figure 7.
    • On the periphery of the print, I can see the living room décor as it used to be.
    • Poised on the western periphery of Europe, Portugal has always been on the edge, looking outwards.
    • The ward is no longer on the periphery of the town.
    • Note the formation of multiple hairs located at the cell periphery.
    • The base plate may include flanges disposed along the outer periphery of the base plate.
    Synonyms
    edge, outer edge, margin, fringe, boundary, border, perimeter, circumference, rim, verge, borderline
    1. 1.1 A marginal or secondary position in, or part or aspect of, a group, subject, or sphere of activity.
      a shift in power from the center to the periphery
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As its power of attraction increases, the center becomes more ignorant of the periphery.
      • We and the cinema must first conquer the DVD as a medium which serves the furthest peripheries of image production as much as the centre, the dissidents as much as the mainstream.
      • But with respect, you are at the periphery; I would not say the margin, but you are at the periphery of that debate.
      • In sum, the prefect was the indispensable link between the centre and the periphery.
      • But there is, in many of its aspects, a confrontational bluntness that ensures relegation to the peripheries.
      • From a sport that existed on the periphery of Irish consciousness his name entered the mainstream.
      • In order to arrive at new prisms of analysis, we need to further de-center the West itself and look at what once were considered peripheries as centers in their own right, with their own capacity for creating history.
      • For all his party loyalty, he found himself increasingly marginalized in union work, pushed to the peripheries, and hung out to take the flack when things fell apart.
      • Moreover, attacks on Victorianism could come from the periphery as well as the centre.
      • The center may need to pay attention to the periphery and accept its influence simply in order to survive.
      • Is speech that advocates violence at the center of the First Amendment, or at its periphery?
      • As the economic and social crisis mounted, democracy was confined, remarkably quickly, to the peripheries of European civilization.
      • Most part-time positions are located in the periphery of the organization.
      • The modern state thus emerged on the periphery of a dynamic area of economic growth.
      • On the positive side it has assisted in moving issues about ageing from the periphery to the centre of political debate.
      • By contrast Italian churches had tended to confine tomb monuments to the peripheries, with the wall tomb the most prestigious form of church burial.
      Synonyms
      bounds, confines, limits, outer limits, extremities, margins, edges, fringes

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting a line that forms the boundary of something): via late Latin from Greek periphereia ‘circumference’, from peripherēs ‘revolving around’, from peri- ‘around’ + pherein ‘to bear’.

 
 
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