单词 | periphery |
释义 | periphery /peuh rif"euh ree/, n. , pl. peripheries. 1. the external boundary of any surface or area. 2. the external surface of a body. 3. the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area. 4. 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. 5. Anat. the area in which nerves end. [1350-1400; < LL peripheria < Gk periphéreia circumference, lit., a bearing round, equiv. to peri- PERI- + phér(ein) to BEAR1 + -eia -Y3; r. ME periferie < ML periferia, var. sp. of LL peripheria] Syn. 1. circumference, perimeter. Ant. 1, 2. center. |
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